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[78] Site record drawing, 28 September 1810
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Reference number
SM 67/2/20
Purpose
[78] Site record drawing, 28 September 1810
Aspect
Perspective of the south front
Signed and dated
- 28th Septr. 1810
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This drawing, SM 67/2/19 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. The drawing shows parts of the south front, with scaffolding and timber lying around. The scaffolding appears to have been braced by an attachment to the pre-existing Wren building.
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 here and in SM 67/2/18).
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 here and in 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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