[49] Record copy of design for entablature to the library

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Reference number

SM volume 41/63 verso

Purpose

[49] Record copy of design for entablature to the library

Aspect

Entablature for Library with detail of frieze labelled Begin in each Angle / w[it]^ha whole head (of bucranium), Entablature to doors of Library labelled Cornice & Frieze of Stucco, the same Architrave to the Windows, and Base & Surbase mold[in]^g / to Library the same / as M^r Lewis Asst-- (illegible) / Drawing Room, Entablature to doors of M^rRowleys dressing Room labelled Cornice & Frieze of Stucco, Line of Frieze and This Architrave to the Windows, Cornice to all the Chambers / on the first floor / to all the Chambers on the / Mezzanine Story / to all the Chambers on the Young Ladies Apartm^t, Base & Surbase Mold^gs / to M^rRowleys dress^gRoom, M^rRowleys dressing Room / Entablature the same as M^rBranthwayts Eating Room

Scale

1/3 Size

Inscribed

as above and Tendring [Hall]

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture ' SM volume 41

Hand

John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

The details for the base and surbase of the library are the same as those for Mr Lewis's drawing room and the entablature and the shutter mouldings for Mr Rowley's dressing room are borrowed from Mr Branthwayt's drawing room and eating room. More interesting is the frieze with bucrania, festoons and paterae taken from the frieze of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli (see Soane in Italy: measured drawings: Tivoli: Temple of Vesta, 1778-80 and later). As a source, this was very important to Soane and it is an early use of the Tivoli frieze with bucrania. The same motif was used at about the same time for the portico of Malvern Hall, Warwickshire for Henry Greswold Lewis (q.v.) and for an unexecuted scheme for Hereford Street, Grosvenor Square, London for Lord Camelford (q.v.).

SM volume 41/61 verso, SM volume 41/62 recto, SM volume 41/62 verso, SM volume 41/63 recto, SM volume 41/63 verso and SM volume 41/64 recto are all record copies of designs for which the original drawings have mosty not survived.

Level

Drawing

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