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Sketch survey drawings, September 1804 (46)
Aspect
46 pages of survey drawings (plus some un-numbered pages) in one volume (88)
Inscribed
(on front cover) The Lord Eliot, Port Eliot / Cornwall / Sketches of the House, Church etc / Sept. 1804
Signed and dated
- 00/09/1804
Medium and dimensions
46 pages (plus some un-used pages) of laid paper bound in marbled stout paper covers (393 x 246)
Hand
Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Watermark
various watermarks including: T Stains / 1800, T Willmott / 1804, fleur de lis 1800, 1801 Britannia holding lance, shield and olive branch within crowned oval
Notes
Seward, who had completed his five year articles in May 1799 and was to stay as an asistant until 1808, roughly drew out the measurements of the house and church at Port Eliot from 11th to 18th September 1804. Soane was to have accompanied him but became unwell, making his only site visit in the following month. P.Dean (Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, pp.103-4) describes the house as '... long and thin, mostly two rooms deep and parallel with the ancient priory church of St Germans, whose monastic remains are partly incorporated in the structure. Two wings extended at its west end with the distinctive 'round room' recently built at the east end of the house by the architect John Johnson [1732-1814 ]'. Seward's fully drawn out site plans and elevations follow (drawings [47] to [55]).
To avoid tedious repetition, some facts such as page size, water mark and hand are given here and not repeated under individual catalogue entries. Usually a drawing, whether loose or bound into a volume has an individual number. When cataloguing, drawings are numbered (as far as possible) in the sequence that they were made. So that the first drawings for Port Eliot, which are survey drawings made out of the office in a freehand style in September 1804 are numbered [1] to [46]. Then follow the survey drawings based on the earlier drawings made on site beginning with drawing [47].
However, there is a difficulty with catalogue numbers for the first group drawing [1] to [46] which relates to the recto and verso of a sheet. Here the numbering (bottom right-hand corner) follows that principle but when photographed the recto of a sheet was photographed with the verso of the preceding drawing though in fact some of the drawings do span two pages/sheets in that way.
Jill lever
March 2016
To avoid tedious repetition, some facts such as page size, water mark and hand are given here and not repeated under individual catalogue entries. Usually a drawing, whether loose or bound into a volume has an individual number. When cataloguing, drawings are numbered (as far as possible) in the sequence that they were made. So that the first drawings for Port Eliot, which are survey drawings made out of the office in a freehand style in September 1804 are numbered [1] to [46]. Then follow the survey drawings based on the earlier drawings made on site beginning with drawing [47].
However, there is a difficulty with catalogue numbers for the first group drawing [1] to [46] which relates to the recto and verso of a sheet. Here the numbering (bottom right-hand corner) follows that principle but when photographed the recto of a sheet was photographed with the verso of the preceding drawing though in fact some of the drawings do span two pages/sheets in that way.
Jill lever
March 2016
Level
group
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk
Contents of Sketch survey drawings, September 1804 (46)
- [1] Notes
- [2] Outline survey plan of ground floor of house
- [3] Part survey plan of ground floor of house
- [4] Survey plan of ground floor of house
- [5] Sketch survey part plan of ground floor (image lacking)
- [6] Outline plan of church (image lacking)
- [7] Outline survey plan of basement of house (image lacking)
- [8] Survey plan of stair in house
- [9] Survey plan of western end of house
- [10] Survey plan of first floor of house
- [11] Survey plan of eastern part of house
- [12] Survey elevation of south front of house
- [13] Survey elevation of church window
- [14] Survey elevation of east front of house
- [15] Survey elevation of west front of house
- [16] Survey elevation of north front of house (no image)
- [17] Ground levels of church and house (image lacking)
- [18] Survey part plan of church
- [19] Survey sections of the church
- [20] Survey elevations of the cloisters
- [21] Diagram of arch to the church
- [22] blank
- [23] Survey plan of most of basement to house
- [24] Survey plan of eastern part of basement of house
- [25] Survey plan of eating room and saloon
- [26] Survey section and details of saloon
- [27] Survey part section and details of eating room
- [28] Plan and some details of cirular drawing room
- [29] Survey plan and section of eating room
- [30] Survey sections of vestibule
- [31] blank
- [32] Survey of levels in house
- [33] Further survey of levels in house
- [34] Slight exterior survey
- [35] blank
- [36] Survey details of church
- [37] Survey detail of church window
- [38] blank
- [39] Outline site plan for stables
- [40] Rough plan of roads and land marks
- [41] Rough general plan with compass points showing church and house etc
- [42] blank
- [43] Rough map
- [44-46] Very rough sketches, no indication of subject