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The intended location for this cupola design is not known. Moreover, the drawing is undated, but if it was designed for the Thomas Wynn who became 3rd Baronet and then Lord Newborough, it would predate 1773 when he inherited from his father and became Sir Thomas rather than ‘Thos Wynn Esq’. The design is not known to have been executed.
Literature:
Wynn, Thomas, 1st Baron Newborough [I] (1736-1807), of Glynllifon, Caern.’, History of Parliament online
Frances Sands, 2015
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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