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Reference number

SM volume 41/77 recto

Purpose

[52] Record copy of designs for the drawing room ceiling

Aspect

Ceiling for the Withdrawing Room

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, Tendring Hall, make this frame like that which finishes the Cove in the Library and some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture ' SM volume 41

Watermark

T French

Notes

See also SM 28/2/5 (plan and wall elevations with details) in which the ceiling design is the same as the one shown here. Attributed to John McDonnell, Soane's second pupil who joined the drawing office on 18 March 1786. His drawing is somewhat uncertain, the dimensions and and instructions to the plasterer written upside down.

SM volume 41/75 verso, SM volume 41/77 recto, SM volume 41/77 verso, SM volume 41/78 recto and SM volume 41/78 verso are record copies of designs for which the original drawings have mostly not survived.

Level

Drawing

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk