[64] Design in a more classical style

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Betchworth Castle (Surrey): alterations and additions to the house, designs for lodge, dairy, ice house, greenhouse and stables, 1798-1800 (68 )
    - Designs for stables, August 1798-May 1799 (12)

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Reference number

SM 64/4/70

Purpose

[64] Design in a more classical style

Aspect

Plan, incomplete elevation and part section

Scale

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Inscribed

[trimmed] H Peters Esq^r, door, window and dimensions given

Signed and dated

11/06/1799
L.I.F. / June 11 1799

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and red wash, shaded, hatching with pen and sepia wash border on laid paper (698 x 470)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and asistant May 1794 - September 1808. Entry in Soane office Day Book for above date.

Notes

The plan is close to that of drawing [62] with some adjustments so that two water closets have been added to the wings and the entrance to the stables is larger and framed by two Doric columns. The walls are articulated by pilasters and the roof is to be tiled.
The verso of the sheet has been used for testing out brush strolkes etcetera and may have been used as a backing sheet to a drawing board.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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