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Reference number

SM 30/3/19

Purpose

Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, Middlesex (now London) 1768

Aspect

[8] Longitudinal Section of the House at Ealing in its present State

Scale

3/16 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, Mr Soane, labelled cellar floor, level of Ground in front of House, level of Gd, (pencil) floor of Cellar never known / to be wet / Baset floor of new House at / 6 Inches above this level and vertical dimensions given
Dated: Lincolns Inn fields Oct 20 1800

Signed and dated

  • 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil on thin wove paper (520 x 680)

Hand

Soane office (Seward and Sword)

Notes

The details of this section, drawn from south to north looking west, are sketchy but the fluted mouldings of the dining room wall arches and the composite pilasters supporting a frieze with garlands, roundels and rinceau decoration in the drawing room can be seen. The ceiling of the ground floor lobby is coffered and a glazed domical lantern lights the short flight of stairs to the drawing room. Room heights are marked as 16 feet for the eating room and 12 feet 2 inches for the drawing room. A cross lobby to the eating room, with a coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling is shown with a half-stair above it, lit by a small, glazed dome giving on to the drawing room.

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Drawing

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