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Reference number

SM D2/8/2

Purpose

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

Aspect

[2] Revised ground floor plan to a larger scale

Scale

1/7 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

labelled Library, Eating Room, Drawing Room, Study or / Dressing Rm, Water closet, and Coach / Porch and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber and green earth washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid secretary paper (405 x 255)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The room dimensions are altered to 20 feet 5 inches by 31 feet 3½ inches while maintaining a ration of 2:3. The stretched elliptical stair hall is now a long rectangle with one segmental side into which the first flight of the geometrical stair is fitted. A porte-cochere with two pairs of columns is shown.

Level

Drawing

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

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