[19] Working drawings for the back elevation and (verso) front elevation

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  - Reading, Berkshire: Friar Street, house for Lancelot Austwick, 1796 (32)
    - Working drawings made May 1796 (7)

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Reference number

2/7A/2

Purpose

[19] Working drawings for the back elevation and (verso) front elevation

Aspect

Elevation of the back Front (verso) Elevation of the Entrance Front

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, L: Austwick Esqr^e, , A. to be built as a / Window & Stop'd up / afterwards (verso) as above, Brick (8 times), Stone (10 times) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

01/05/1796
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields / May 1796 (verso) Copy Lincolns Inn Fields / May 3^r^d1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, yellow and burnt umber washes, shaded on thin wove paper 560 x 336) (verso) pen and sepia washes

Hand

Attributed to Henry Provis (1760 - 1830) clerk July 1791 - The Soane office Day Book for 3 May 1796 has Seward, Good and Provis working on drawings for Mr Austwick. The hand differs from those of Seward (drawings [13] and [15]) and Good (drawing [16]) and may therefore be that of Provis.

Notes

A comparison with drawings [15] and [16] shows that the three-storey (with basement) design has been adopted. The back is very plain while (verso) the front elevation has (beneficially) lost some of it ornament so that the niches with amphorae have gone and the pediments with rosettes of the upper floor have also gone. The cornice (toothing) remains and is properly detailed as are the brick heads to the round-arched doors and segmental heads to the windows of the ground floor.

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