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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: 22 St James's Square: survey drawings and unexecuted designs for alterations, for Samuel Thornton, 1799, 1808

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Reference number

SM 39/1/79

Purpose

[1] Survey drawing

Aspect

The Plan of the Ground Floor of House in S^t James Square / Samuel Thornton

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Area, Eating Room, Mr Thornton's / dressing Room, Water / Closet, Dressing Room, Garden and Garden, Passage / to the / offices, area, Kitchen, Stable, Coourt, Coachouse, Mews and dimensions given

Signed and dated

00/06/1799
Lincolns Inn Fields June 1799

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (650 x 542)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.

Notes

Presumably there were survey drawings of other floors in particular the first floor for which designs were also made but if so they have not survived. However, a survey drawing made in 1808 (see [6]) shows that the kitchen and stable, as usual, lay behind the house. More interesting is that a comparison between the two survey drawings shows no changes whatever. Some of the dimensions vary by an inch or so but otherwise they are virtually identical.

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Drawing

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