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Reference number

SM 30/3/13

Purpose

Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, Middlesex (now London) 1768

Aspect

[2] Plan of ground floor, a finished copy of [SM 30/3/14], prepared for publication

Scale

3/16 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

The Plan of the Ground Floor / Mr Soane. Ealing, rooms labelled Eating room, Parlor, Housekeepers Room, Parlor, Dressing Room, Butlers Pantry, Strong Closet, Larder, Kitchen, Entrance and dimensions given
Dated: Novr 8 1806

Signed and dated

  • 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer, within multi-ruled sepia washed border on laid paper (520 x 730)

Hand

Soane office (Edwards or Bailey)

Watermark

J Ruse 1805

Notes

Dance's wing to the south side of the existing house has a 37 foot 6 inches frontage and is 27 feet deep. The east front has four windows and the west front, one window. Inside is shown a chimney-piece on the south wall and opposite an alcove marked 8 feet 8 inches wide and 6 feet 4½ inches from back to front.

The original house, marked 48 feet 1 inch wide, was of five bays with a central porch. Either side of the narrow entrance passage was a parlour. Next to the parlour on the northside was a good sized larder and further offices, not fully drawn out.

The plan was published (with a few modifications) as Plate II of Soane's Description of Pitzhanger Manor House...(1833), with a view from the east drawn by C. J. Richardson. Plate III shows interior views of Dance's eating room and drawing room with later furniture and hangings.

Soane's Day Book for 8 November 1806 records Mr Soane / About Plan & Elevation of / Ealing / Bailey, that is George Bailey (1792-1860) in his first year of pupillage. The previous day, Francis Edwards (1784-1857), employed from 1806 as an improver, was About Plan of / Ealing and this is likely to be his drawing.

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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