[4] Record copy of design

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Malvern Hall, Warwickshire: (executed) alterations and addition of wings and porch for Henry Greswold Lewis, 1783-1786 (15)

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Reference number

SM volume 41/31 verso

Purpose

[4] Record copy of design

Aspect

Plan of Principal Floor of Malvern Hall / with the intended Alterations and Additions with pencil addition (by Soane) of bow window to 1st drawing room

Scale

bar scale of 1/11 inch to 1 foot (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, labelled (new rooms) 2^nd Drawing Room with note Build 14 In^s against this wall, Bedchamber, Dressg Room, Eating Room, Bed chamber, Dressg Room, (old house) 1^st Drawing Room with (pencil) Gallery and (pencil)Music R[oom], Vestibule, Portico, Common Parlor, Library and dimensions given

Signed and dated

Octr 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black and sepia wash, pencil on laid paper, bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41

Hand

John Sanders (pupil 1784-90), pencil additions by Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect , 1982, pp.126-8 (bathroom)

Level

Drawing

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