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  • image SM 8/3/11

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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