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  • image SM 71/3/13

Reference number

SM 71/3/13

Purpose

[6] Presentation drawing, July 1791

Aspect

The Plan and Section of One Side of the Proposed Museum (to a larger scale and more elaborately finished than SM 71/3/15)

Scale

bar scale of 2/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: The Section of One Side of the Museum and The Plan of the Museum and above three cases: The Natural History of Ireland, The Natural History of England and The Natural History of Scotland

Signed and dated

  • July 1791
    Copy John Soane Archt July 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, sepia and coloured washes on laid paper (632 x 950) with quadruple-ruled and raw umber wash border and with one fold mark

Hand

Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1788-94)

Watermark

J Whatman

Level

Drawing

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

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