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Reference number

SM volume 76/77

Purpose

[139] Record drawing

Aspect

Pencil perspective of the north and west fronts

Inscribed

labelled (pencil) bottom

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the north and west sides of the stables as well as the corner of the new Infirmary. Soane used blind arcading here again, the main feature of the stables, as Dean indicates 'symmetrically arranged arch-headed openings, all detailed in such a way as to create an appearance of general symmetry even if the exact disposition of doors and windows was uneven'. There are lunette windows on the two visible walls of the north-west corner (the loose box), only one of which is apparent on the previous elevations. The Infirmary has been erased and re-drawn further to the right.

Literature

P. Dean, 'The Royal Hospital Chelsea I- Pre-1815' in Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p.66

Level

Drawing

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