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  • image SM 78/6/19
Drawing. SM 78/6/19. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

Reference number

SM 78/6/19

Purpose

[17] Office record drawing (copied from working drawings?) for cornices and mouldings at Anniston House as executed, 1785

Aspect

Profiles of cornices, friezes, skirting, and door and window architraves in different rooms. Representative decoration is given for the drawing room cornice, consisting of courses of egg and darts, beads, and dentils. The dining room cornice is shown to be less ornate but has a reeded soffit

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Drawings at Large. John Rait of Anniston Esqr. / Plaister Cornice at Large to /// / Plaster Cornice at Large to Bedchamber / Architrave at Large to Door Windows Dining Room And Drawing Room / Plaister Cornice at Large to Drawing room, Frieze Antique Folige, Neck Moulding Plaster / Plaster Cornice at Large to Dining Room, Ornamented Freeze 17 inches wide, Neck Moldg Plaster / Moulding on Door and Windows Ground to Bedchamber and bookroom and Staircase / Skirting to all but Dining Room, Drawing Room and lobby / Base molding to Dining room and Drawing room / Surbase Molding to Dining room and Drawing room

Signed and dated

  • 15 May 1786
    Ja. Playfair Archt, London May 15th 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (539x688)

Hand

Playfair, James (1755--1794) - Art collections

Level

Drawing

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