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[2] Design for a villa, 1792
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Reference number
SM 46/2/A5
Purpose
[2] Design for a villa, 1792
Aspect
Variant plan for the ground floor. Verso (Soane, feint pencil) rough tracing of plan on recto and the overall dimensions of 50:4½ by 52:0 of recto here marked 50.9 by 50.6 and marked on the left-hand side 14.3, the width of an addition ?
Scale
(no bar scale) 1/9 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above and Sir Frederick Eden Bart. Plan labelled: Portico, Drawing Room, Eating Room, Library, Dressing Room and dimensions given.
Signed and dated
- 1792
1792 (added later by George Bailey (1792-1860), pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60)
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and black wash (verso, pencil) on laid paper (405 x 262)
Hand
Soane office
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, GR. I Taylor
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