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[25] Design No.1 for ground floor
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Reference number
SM 6/4/24
Purpose
[25] Design No.1 for ground floor
Aspect
Plan of the Hall Floor with the proposed Alterations & Improvements
Scale
bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, W R Cartwright Esqre,Aynho Design No 1, Library, Strong Closet / --------, Recess / for / Library table, Anti Room, Eating Room, Saloon, Drawing Room, Green House, Path to Church, Lobby, Billiard Room, Hall, Great Stair, Mr Cartwright's / Room, Passage, Staircase, Washing Room, Plate Clos[et], Butlers Pantry, Servants Hall, Powder / Clo[set], Passage to Kitchen and other Offices, Wet & Dry Laundries, Kitchen, Scullery, House Keeper's / Room, Store / Room, Brew house, Wash house, Laundry and a few dimensions given, for example, library: 30.9 by 23 & 16:6 high
Signed and dated
- 19/11/1799
Copy John Soane Archt Nov19: 1799
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black and red wash, pricked for transfer, quadruple ruled, black and sepia wash border, on wove paper (535 x 698)
Hand
George Mansfield, surveyor 1 May 1797 - December 1800 (from the Soane office Day Book)
Notes
The proposed alterations, in a red wash, show the extent of additions and alterations.that is: library, anti room and offices with changes to the eating room and saloon and with and an arch linking the stables to the house. The enfilade arrangement of the south rooms is clearly shown. The saloon
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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