[14] Perspective of revised design

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  - Cosgrove, Northamptonshire: unexecuted designs for a house for M. Mansel, 1799 (14)

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Reference number

SM 5/1/20

Purpose

[14] Perspective of revised design

Aspect

View of a Villa designed for M^r Mansel

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

20/09/1799
Sep^r 20 : 1799

Medium and dimensions

Pen and blue, warm sepia and green washes with triple ruled and black and sepia washes on laid paper (475 x 682)

Hand

Attributed to Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.

Notes

A comparison with the design for the front elevation (drawing [12]) shows changes, for example, to the windows. The five windows of the first floor are now conventional 9-paned rectangular windows instead of single or double windows with arched heads set in rectangular openings. The two segmental-headed windows, 8 feet 6 inches wide, of the raised ground floor have become paned windows set in a round-headed blind arch whose geometry corresponds with the fanlight over the entrance door. The pilaster strips are grooved in a regular way instead of the more dynamic centred arrangement of drawing [12].
The five-bay side elevation uses sash windows, grooved pilasters and a pediment so that it corresponds with drawing [13].

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Drawing

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