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[11] Working drawings for the ground floor and for the drawing room, October 1784
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Reference number
SM 28/2/5
Purpose
[11] Working drawings for the ground floor and for the drawing room, October 1784
Aspect
Plan with revisions for The principal Story of Tendring Hall, Suffolk including plan of drawing room ceiling
Scale
bar scale (equivalent of 2 1/3 inch to one foot)
Inscribed
as above, Rear Admiral Rowley, notes (by Soane about secondary stair) A.A. From Hall Story to Mezzanine / B to G to Principal Chambers / B door with Mezzanino / You must pass thro' Mezzanino Room C to get into Bed Room D / From the floor of Mezzanino to / P.[rincipal] Bedchamber is 4':11" / And from P. Bedchamber to the / Chambers over Mezzanino is 5.0. 18:4 with other calculations, (Baldwin) rooms labelled: Eating Parlor, Library &c, Vestibule, Withdrawing Room, Bedchamber, Dressing Room (twice), Admiral Rowley's room, (ceiling) make this frame like that which finishes the Cove in the Library, (verso) Tendring Hall / Plan of Principal Floor
Signed and dated
- Margaret Street Octr 2d 1784
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink wash, pencil on laid paper, with recent repairs to a well used sheet (575 x 440)
Hand
Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804) with ceiling design and amended staircase and notes added by Soane
Watermark
J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W
Notes
The overall dimensions of 68 feet 9 inches wide by 62 feet 9 inches deep are the same as on SM 28/3/1. There have been some minor adjustments in room dimensions, the 'gentleman's dressing room' and 'Bedchamber' of SM 28/3/1 are now a 'Bedchamber' and 'Admiral Rowley's room' and the layout of the dressing rooms and secondary stair between them have been revised. Baldwin had already incorporated two windows rather than one on either side of the garden bow but Soane changed the position of the pair of columns in the 'eating parlour' and added the location of flues.
His sketch plan for the drawing room ceiling is reminiscent of the tracings he made when in Henry Holland's office (1772 to March 1778) of designs for ceilings as well as chimneypieces and doors at Claremont House see 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42). Presumably Soane asked Baldwin to draw the plan and then having revised it, Baldwin drew it again. By October 1784, the newly arrived pupil John Sanders would not have been up to the task.
His sketch plan for the drawing room ceiling is reminiscent of the tracings he made when in Henry Holland's office (1772 to March 1778) of designs for ceilings as well as chimneypieces and doors at Claremont House see 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42). Presumably Soane asked Baldwin to draw the plan and then having revised it, Baldwin drew it again. By October 1784, the newly arrived pupil John Sanders would not have been up to the task.
Level
Drawing
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