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[33] Working drawing for a hot house, June 1789
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Reference number
SM 8/3/11
Purpose
[33] Working drawing for a hot house, June 1789
Aspect
Plan, Elevation and Section of Hot house and Shed
Scale
bar scale of 3/16 inch to 1 foot (approximately)
Inscribed
as above, Tendring Hall, level of Floor, line of Garden Wall, This part only / to be Sunk and (verso) 7th June 1788 (sic) Lodder waited on Sr Joshua Rowley / with this Drawing which he / approved of
Signed and dated
- Welbeck Street 5th June 1789 - the verso is dated 7 June 1788
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, light red, blue, burnt umber, yellow and green washes, pricked for transfer within single ruled border on thin laid paper with recent repairs to edges (467 x 367)
Hand
John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)
Notes
Sanders's drawing for a hot house is a handed version of the earlier design for a pinery (SM 8/3/38) and with the same dimensions. The 'Lodder' inscribed on the verso was the builder, see note to SM 28/2/16. Soane's account book (SM 'Journal No 1', opposite p.75) has an entry for 3 June 1789 'sent Swan drawings of Hothouses' and (7 June) 'Lodder called on Sir J. with a drawing / of the Hothouse wh he approved'.
Level
Drawing
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