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  • image SM volume 42/121

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