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[25] Variant working drawing for kitchen offices, 1785
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Reference number
SM 28/2/16
Purpose
[25] Variant working drawing for kitchen offices, 1785
Aspect
Plan, elevations and details inscribed (Sanders) Sketch of design for Offices and (feint pencil, verso) incomplete plan for offices
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to one foot
Inscribed
as above, (Sanders) Tendring Hall / Design for the Offices, (labelled by another hand) Section on the Line D E, Gau[ged] arch, ro[und] arch, Elevation of the Front FG, Pediment Pitch, Wood, Brickwork, Wood Moulding to be nail'd to the / Pole plate, which plate is to be laid flush with the outside / Wall, Brick Cornice, Ro arch, C, Lead, End of Kitchen M, Elevation of Front H I, Section of Front K L, M M, Arch over this door, Gauged brick and dimensions given. Verso (Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Working drawings, Offices and (another hand) Mr Wm Lodder at Admiral Rowleys / Tendring Hall near Colchester
Signed and dated
- datable to 1785-6
Medium and dimensions
pen, pink and sepia washes, pencil on cartridge with four fold marks, modern backing (605 x 457)
Hand
neither Soane nor Baldwin see note below
Notes
This is a re-drawing of Soane's 'Sketch' design (SM 28/2/18) by an experienced hand; Soane has gone over it in a feint pencil roughing out some modifications. The inscription on the verso suggests that it was to be sent to William Lodder on site. The draughtsman has not been identified but the bar scale with three dots on the main verticals is unusual though, for example, George Dance used it in his early career. Soane's 'Accompt book / from 1781' has a note 'set out with Pepys & Sanders / to Survey ...' (13 February 1785) and entries of payment to 'Pepys' of two guineas on 21 February and 8 March 1785. George Pepys assisted George Dance in the City of London office from about 1774 (D. Stroud, George Dance architect, 1741-1825, 1971, p.106,149,155-6) and was perhaps helping Soane out at a busy time when his only employee was John Sanders, a newly acquired pupil (from 1 September 1784). There was also Soane's ghost assistant, Robert Baldwin and further cataloguing will reveal when he ceased working for Soane.
Level
Drawing
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