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[5] Variant design with a chapel
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Reference number
SM 14/5/2
Purpose
[5] Variant design with a chapel
Aspect
Perspective of A Design for the Improvement of the East Side of Lincolns Inn Fields and for Planting the Area within the Iron Railing with The Plan
Scale
(plan) 1/32 inch to 1 foot (?)
Inscribed
as above
Medium and dimensions
Pen, warm sepia, raw umber, sepia, green, blue and red washs, shaded with triple ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (590 x 920)
Hand
Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. Entries for the scheme appear in the Soane office Day Book from 21 May to 26 May 1800. Seward is given as the draughtsman except on 22 May when it was Joseph Gandy and Seward. The client is described as :'The Trustees of the Lincolns Inn Fields' of which Soane was one.
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. Entries for the scheme appear in the Soane office Day Book from 21 May to 26 May 1800. Seward is given as the draughtsman except on 22 May when it was Joseph Gandy and Seward. The client is described as :'The Trustees of the Lincolns Inn Fields' of which Soane was one.
Notes
The perspective takes in the dome of St Paul's cathedral and the spire of the church of St Vedast (both by Wren) as well as the south side of Lincolns Inn Fields. There are eleven bays either side of the chapel instead of the 15 bays of drawing [4] and, with the proposed planting added, the result is less agressive than in the previous drawing.
Level
Drawing
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