[16] Working drawing for south and east elevations

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Reference number

SM 28/2/12

Purpose

[16] Working drawing for south and east elevations

Aspect

(Baldwin) Tendring Hall. South Front to the Lawn and (verso) full size detail of cornice and blocking course

Scale

scale of ¼ inch to one foot

Inscribed

as above, (Soane), omit (twice of basement windows) and window widths given, verso (Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Elevation of Front / to the Lawn and (Soane, pencil, of cornice) 8 Inches in the Wall

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil on laid paper (435 x 560)

Hand

(recto) John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90), (verso) Soane

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W

Notes

Baldwin seems to have re-used Soane's discarded drawing (the verso). The incomplete set of elevations was made before the set of four drawings (SM 28/2/8, SM 28/2/9, SM 28/2/11 and SM 28/2/10) made by Sanders. Evidenced by the 'omitted' windows of the basement, marked thus on this drawing and not shown on SM 28/2/9. More interestingly, the first floor windows of the garden bow were made taller in Sander's SM 28/2/9 where they are marked 9'0"while they measure 7 feet on Baldwin's drawing. Soane had wanted all the first floor windows to be the same height but Admiral Rowley (or more likely Mrs Rowley for it was her room) wanted them made taller.

Level

Drawing

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