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[2] Working drawing (copy), close to as executed, for the stables, 1790-1
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Reference number
SM 64/4/64 recto
Purpose
[2] Working drawing (copy), close to as executed, for the stables, 1790-1
Aspect
Plan of the Ground Floor marked A to E
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to one foot
Inscribed
as above John (or J.) Wharton Esqr, Stables at Skelton Castle, Copy and running dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1790-91
datable to 1790-1. Evidently, the drawing was a copy made c. April-June 1791. The date of the original is uncertain for there is only one reference to the stables in Soane's Ledger B (p.122) 'Making three drawings of designs for the Stables / Coachouses &c one of which was approved' dated 27 December 1790.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pricked for transfer on laid paper with one fold mark (533 x 645)
Hand
Frederick Meyer (pupil April 1791-1796) and William Blogg (improver March-June 1791) (comparison of hands with SM 30/1A/5, SM 30/1A/4 and SM 30/1A/3)
Literature
G. Worsley, The British stable, 2004, pp. 198-9, 283
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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