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[1] Preliminary design for a house
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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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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