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Copies of design for an entrance with lodges decorated with Coade stone heraldic greyhounds, August 1790 and later record copies (5)

Of the drawings 9-13, No. 9 is certainly by Sanders; the others are from the same hand and have been attributed to him. Sanders had been in Soane's office since 1 September 1784 and was nearing the end of his five-year apprenticeship. By August (date of drawing 9) there were three other pupils in the Soane office, all junior to Sanders. These were John McDonnell (pupil 18 March 1786-1791), Thomas Chawner (pupil 1788-93) and David Laing (pupil 8 January 1790-96). The drawings (9-13) are not from the hand of a professional perspectivist and, in the meantime, Sanders is the most likely candidate. 9 The lodges measure 14 feet wide and 9 feet deep internally. The entrances are on the park side while there are large semicircular-headed windows on the front (and side) above a balustrade with bellied balusters that were to be supplied by Coade's. The paterae, strigilated pedestals and the 'Circular flutes for ch[imne]y Tops' were also supplied by Eleanor Coade's composition company (SM 'Ledger A' and see also SM 'Bill Book 5'). As were the greyhound supporters that carry convex oval or cartouche shields. 10 Drawing 10 is more highly finished than the other perspectives (drawings 11, 13) which are set in a scanty, generalised landscape. Here, the draughtsman gives an impression of parkland with the road minimized and many trees added, the right-hand tree in the foreground drawn with special care. Possibly, the drawing was intended for exhibition (with other drawings for other schemes) at the Royal Academy. Uncharacteristically, Soane exhibited no drawings at all between 1787 and 1792; from 1792 onwards he exhibited at the Royal Academy every year without fail up to and including 1836 (he died in 1837).11 A nearer view of the lodges and gate flanked by homely timber fencing, that, though less sophisticated, was probably drawn by the same hand that made drawing 10. 12-13 Drawn by the same office hand as drawing 8 and also in a sepia monochromeSoane's 'Ledger A' has an entry made on 4 August 1790, 'Sent per Norwich Mail, several Drawings of the Lodges, containing the Plans, Elevations and Sections'. Drawing 9, dated August 1790, is presumably a copy of one of those drawings.
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