[77] Site record drawing, 28 September 1810

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Public buildings
  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
    - Infirmary, August 1809 - November 1810, April - July 1818 and c.1833 (88)

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Reference number

SM 67/2/19

Purpose

[77] Site record drawing, 28 September 1810

Aspect

Original Sketch, perspective of the north front

Signed and dated

28^th Sept^r. 1810

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM 67/2/20 and SM 67/2/18 are site sketches intended as preliminaries to worked-up perspectives (which are themselves evident in the following group of drawings). All three are on the same type of paper and are the same size. This drawing shows the north front with the old Wren buildings to the east and a sweeping drive on the west.

Walter Godfrey writes that these (and the following group's) progress drawings provide some of the only visual evidence for the appearance of Yarborough House and that 'It is evident from the drawings that in order to make way for the new building it was at first dismantled, with the exception of the extreme southern wing, which was left untouched until the work was approaching completion. This is the wing that Soane incorporated in his Infirmary and which tradition has called Sir Robert Walpole's Drawing room (as seen in SM 67/2/20 and SM 67/2/18).

Literature

W. Godfrey (ed.), Survey of London: volume 2: Chelsea, part 1, 1909, pp. 3-8

Level

Drawing

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