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[1] Sketch design, not executed
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Reference number
SM volume 42/121
Purpose
[1] Sketch design, not executed
Aspect
Elevation of five-bay, two-storey, porticoed house with single storey pavilion wings and two variant plans; elevation of five-bay, two-storey house with single storey portico without pediment and plan; perspective detail of roman tiles; (verso) elevation similar the first one but with the details of the centre bays inked out, and plan; unidentified detail
Scale
not to a scale
Inscribed
(recto) Castle Eden, No 2, No3, North, Lib.[rary], Parl.[our] Kit.[chen], Scull.[ery], H[all], some dimensions given and Mount St / Mrs Ann London Bull & / Morng Chronicle / instead of Courant (the Morning Chronicle and London Courant were newspapers, the London Bull[etin ?] has not been traced)
Signed and dated
- Oct. 7. 1780
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, pencil on laid paper with four fold marks (220 x 367)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
post horn within a crowned cartouche and GR below (Heawood 2754)
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp. 120-22
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