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Variant sketch designs for new principal (south) front (2)

Soane was at Barons Court in May 1791. These sketch designs (folded several times for the pocket) would have been made after Soane had seen the survey drawings for the existing building (drawings 2-8, dated March and April 1791) and possibly while he was on his way to Barons Court having left London on 7 May 1791. A comparison with an elevation for the entrance front (drawing 9) made on 14 May 1791 shows that while the massing is more or less the same, the design for the portico varies - the drawings catalogued here having a vast segmental head spanning the portico that became a smaller semicircular window in drawing 9.
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