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[1] Competition design No.3 with motto 'Mihi turpe relinqui est'
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Reference number
SM 13/1/6
Purpose
[1] Competition design No.3 with motto 'Mihi turpe relinqui est'
Aspect
The Basement Story of a Design for a Lunatic Hospital
Scale
bar scale of 1/14 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, A. Staircase for the use of the Master & Apothecarys Servants / B. do for the more convenient conveying the provisions to the Patients / C. do for the use of the Hospital / D. do from the Street to the Kitchen &c and rooms labelled: Cellars (3 times), Coals / 15 by 20 (twice), Coals / 15.9 by 19, Area (twice), Cutting room / 16.1½ by 19.7½, Small beer / Cellar / 17 by 23, Kitchen / 22.0 by 19.7½, Servants / room / 15.7½ by 16.9, Boiling room / 15.7½ by 16.9, Masters / Kitchen / 16.1½ by 9.1½, Pantry / 10.1½ by 9.1½, Apothecarys / Kitchen / 16.1 by 9.1½, Wet Larder / 16.1½ by 9.1½, Court, Washouse / 16.6 by 16, Passage to Staircase to Hospital. No3 (competition number added). Mihi turpe relinqui est [it is shameful for me to be left behind] (competition motto)
Signed and dated
- datable to before 31 May 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen and washes within a single ruled border on laid paper with one fold mark (641 x 988)
Hand
Soane?
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
Robert Baldwin's hand can be seen in the inscribed titles as well as the rendering of the elevation and section of this drawing. It has been suggested (Professor du Prey, in conversation February 2009) that the room labels on this drawing and SM 13/1/5 were added by Soane who may have drawn the plans too. It is not uncommon to have several hands making a competition drawing.
The plan could be described as a stretched half-ellipse (cut longitudinally). The elevation has a Pantheon-type dome in the centre over a three-bay, four-storey frontispiece with three Wyatt windows, the centre one with a pair of reclining statues. The giant, two-storey windows at each end have a pair of Greek Doric columns with plain shafts and without bases.
The plan could be described as a stretched half-ellipse (cut longitudinally). The elevation has a Pantheon-type dome in the centre over a three-bay, four-storey frontispiece with three Wyatt windows, the centre one with a pair of reclining statues. The giant, two-storey windows at each end have a pair of Greek Doric columns with plain shafts and without bases.
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982. Chapter 3 (Architecture for madness: the St Luke's competition)
Level
Drawing
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