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[12] Record copy of plans and laid-out wall elevations, November 1785
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Reference number
SM volume 41/60 verso
Purpose
[12] Record copy of plans and laid-out wall elevations, November 1785
Aspect
Section of the Great Drawing Room at Malvern Hall
Scale
bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, The Plan, Walls colored light Pink / Frieze ....... deep Pink, (Soane, pencil) glass
Signed and dated
- Novr 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia wash, pencil, trace lines on laid paper (224 x 360), bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41
Hand
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)
Watermark
fleur-de-lis, T French
Notes
The trace lines or setting out lines have not been erased. Soane's Account Book 1781-86 (entry for (?) 30th October 1784 has 'Sanders a Journey making / Sections &c Exp. 3.16.0' and (12 November 1785) '3 Fair Sections of Eat. Room / Drawg ro[om] / Library'.
The new drawing room, also measuring 36 by 24 feet and with three French windows, has a ceiling that is segmental in section and coffered, oval plaques over three doors and a recess, and looking glasses over the chimneypiece and on an end wall. The light pink walls were relieved by the deep pink of the scrolled frieze.
The new drawing room, also measuring 36 by 24 feet and with three French windows, has a ceiling that is segmental in section and coffered, oval plaques over three doors and a recess, and looking glasses over the chimneypiece and on an end wall. The light pink walls were relieved by the deep pink of the scrolled frieze.
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