[32] Working drawing for mouldings and (verso) windows (as drawing [31])

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  - London: 12 Stratton Streeet, new house for Colonel Thomas Graham, later 1st Lord Lynedoch, 1797-8 (39)
    - Working drawings for fitting out of rooms, May-August 1798

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Reference number

SM 39/3/28 and verso

Purpose

[32] Working drawing for mouldings and (verso) windows (as drawing [31])

Aspect

Full size details of mouldings (verso) Plan and elevation of drawing room windows

Scale

full size (verso) ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Col Graham, Cornice of Hall, Molding on Pannel of Doors, Cornice of Drawing Room, Base & Surbase, Moldings / of Drawing Room & Library (verso) Col Graham, Drawing of Sashes &c in the Drawing Room

Signed and dated

00/08/1798
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields Aug^st 1798 (verso) Lincolns Inn Fields July 17 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, shaded on wove paper with three folds (558 x 657) (verso) pen, light red and sepia washes

Hand

Recto:attributed to Seward
(Verso)The office Day Book for 17 July 1798 has Seward 'about making drawings' for Colonel Graham, that is, Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848), pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808

Notes

The drawing room includes a cornice for the drawing room decorated with rosette and calyx motifs in a foliate manner that is perhaps fairly unusual for Soane.
For Notes to verso see drawing [31]

Level

Drawing

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