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  • image SM D2/8/1

Reference number

SM D2/8/1

Purpose

Design for an unidentified five-part, square villa in a Classical style, 57 by 56 feet

Aspect

[1] Ground floor plan, front and back elevations of two-storey, three by five bay house, 57.10½ wide by 56.4½ deep, and rough wall section

Scale

1/12 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

rooms labelled Drawing room, Eating room, Libray, Hall and Dressing room, dimensions given and calculations of room sizes

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil on laid secretary paper, lower corners cut (400 x 240)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

The drawing shows a three-bay front with side and garden elevations of five bays. Kalman (pp.178-9) in a discussion of harmonic proportion makes the point that in this plan three rooms have identical dimensions of 19 feet 7½ inches by 30 feet 4½ inches, close to 2:3, a musical fifth.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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