Scale
1/7 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
rooms labelled including Hall, Library, Anti Room, Ding Room, Drawg Room, Anti Room and dimensions given
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, sepia, light red, yellow ochre and burnt umber washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper, three strips added and three old patches (685 x 800)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and W below
Notes
Additions to the house are washed in a light red and existing work in sepia. Confusingly, the extensive office wing is washed in both sepia and a light red wash. The remodelling of the house is fairly minor with a three-window bowed projection on the garden (east) side and a portico in antis added. Behind a nine-bay office and link wing Dance has added more service accommodation as well as a suite of Powdering / Rm, Wardrobe, bedroom, Anti Room and Lady Camdens / Dressing Room that is joined by a Conservatory on a quadrant curved plan to the house. The parts washed sepia (as though for existing work) on the office and link wing consist of an extension one room deep on the same plane as the front of the house and a detached block of four bays, one room deep, behind it.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural,
design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for
scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to
preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and
it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance
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