[17] Designs for four chimney-pieces

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [17] Designs for four chimney-pieces

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Town houses
  - London: No. 49 (formerly 44) Grosvenor Square: alterations for the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, 1797-9 (18)
    - Details of mouldings, windows and chimney pieces, 1798-9 (8)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 81/2/84

Purpose

[17] Designs for four chimney-pieces

Aspect

(recto) Plans, elevations and details (including pencil details) for two chimney-pieces, the first with an X cancellation mark and (against right-hand design) Approved Oct^r24:1798 (verso) plans,elevations and details for two chimney-pieces, both with cancellation marks

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(against right-hand design) Approved of Oct^r1798, The South East (small) Drawing / Room, The plan of the / Pilasters, The Plan of the / Shelf and Portland Stone, The Chimney Piece of North west Chamber / the other Chimney Piece on this floor/ to be the same designs but where / there is Marble already that to be / used in the place of Portland Stone, The Plan of the Pilaster, The Plan of the Shelf, Rounded, Portland Stone (twice) and dimensions given (verso) The Chimney Piece for (?) Arch Room, Plan of the the Pilasters, Plan of the Shelf and The Chimney piece for South West Drawing Room, Plan of the Pilasters, Plan of the Shelf

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, burnt sienna and light red washes washes on thin laid (secretary) paper with severn fold marks (for pocket or post?) ( 339 x 456)

Hand

The office Day Book for 24 Octoner 1798 has George Mansfield (surveyor from 1 May 1797 to December 1800) 'Ab^t Acc^ts & Sketches of chy piece' for the Countess of Pembroke (for half a day)

Watermark

J Bigg and crowned cartouche with post horn and below, JB

Notes

Although intended for fourdifferent rooms only one design (for the north west chamber) was approve; the others have cancellation marks.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).

×

×

Personal & Academic Use

All content on the Sir John Soane’s Museum website copyright belongs to the trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Material may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an educational organisation (such as schools, colleges and universities). This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context or altered format (such as stretched, compressed, coloured or altered in any way so as to distort its original format). To obtain a low resolution jpg image right click on the image and select either 'save as' or 'copy'. To obtain a higher resolution image for non-commercial purposes please apply using the Commercial Use form referenced below.

Where any of the items on this site are being republished or copied to other websites, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged, e.g.: “Joseph Michael Gandy, ‘An imagined view of the Bank of England in ruins’, 1830, Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London”.

Please click here to download our Terms of Use.

Print on Demand

We also offer a selection of images from the Museum's collection for print on demand through our image licensee partners:

Bridgeman Images - founded in 1972 they aim to make the best of the world's art available for reproduction while supporting museums, artists and collections.

King and McGaw - established in 1982 they believe that everyone should be able to own inspiring art, which is why they work hard to bring their customers an unrivaled collection of artworks and framed prints.

Surface View - their vast image collection began searching through Sanders of Oxford's vintage etchings and prints. They now have a selection of our floral designs for silks and the Adam brothers' architectural drawings available as prints, canvases and wall murals.

Commercial Use

To reproduce an image for commercial use or to obtain a high resolution digital image, please download and complete this form, and email it to picturelibrary@soane.org.uk

Filming and photography are not allowed in Sir John Soane’s Museum unless prior permission is given. To arrange a professional filming or photography for commercial use please contact:
picturelibrary@soane.org.uk

All profits made through our picture library and print on demand partners help support the continued work conducted by the Museum.

CLICK TO CLOSE AND ACCEPT TERMS OF USE