[1] Preliminary design for a house

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  - Castle Forbes, County Longford, Ireland: (unbuilt) dower house for the Dowager Countess of Granard, 1790 (4)
    - Preliminary designs for Castle Forbes (2)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/156

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a house

Aspect

Elevation for a villa of three storeys and three bays and with a rusticated ground floor and a bowed Ionic portico

Scale

to a scale of 1/15 in to 1 ft, approximately

Inscribed

omit recep.[tion], Rusticate and vertical dimensions given

Signed and dated

Datable to 1790

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, sepia wash, pencil on laid paper (145 x 297)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche (sheet trimmed)

Literature

P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985 in series of 'Cataloges of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. 65, 66

Level

Drawing

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