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[6] Design for a villa, 1792
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Reference number
SM 46/2/A4
Purpose
[6] Design for a villa, 1792
Aspect
Ground floor Plan to the Elevation No2 with alternative front wall plan (Soane, pencil) rough revised plan
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. Also Strong / Closet / with a / Water / Closet / over it and (right-hand side) offices
Signed and dated
- 1792
Copy Great Scotland Yard Decr 22d 1792
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black and sepia washes, pencil (verso, pencil) with quadruple-ruled, sepia and raw umber washes border on laid paper (268 x 372)
Hand
Soane's office Day Book for 1792 shows that between 19 and 29 December 1792, Frederick Meyer (pupil 1791-6), Thomas Taylor (clerk December 1792-March 1793) and Thomas Jeans (pupil 1792-1797) worked on drawings for Frederick Eden and that 'No.4, fair drawings' were sent to him on 22 December.
Watermark
fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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