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  • image SM 78/6/17
Drawing. SM 78/6/17. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

Reference number

SM 78/6/17

Purpose

[20] Working drawing (office copy) for cornices to the stable and colonnade at Anniston House as executed, 1786

Aspect

Two drawings of timber block cornices showing elevations and profiles

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Wood Cornice at large to Collonades – Anniston House. Copy, labelled: Slate, Board, Profile of Blocks, Profile, Front of Block, Wood Entablature / Cornice at large to Stables – Anniston House., labelled: Slating, Wood board, wood block, wood, Front of Block, Profile, Stone String under Wood Cornice

Signed and dated

  • 1786
    J. Playfair Archt. London. 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen with grey wash on wove paper (524x633)

Hand

James Playfair

Level

Drawing

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