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Reference number

SM 78/6/21

Purpose

[23] Design (office copy) for the lobby of Anniston House as executed, 1786

Aspect

Plan, internal elevations, and details of a country house lobby with an arched recess for a cloakroom. The plan shows connections off the lobby to the entrance portico, book room, drawing room, dining room and stairs. The room is ornamented with a plaster cornice, timber Doric pilasters, dado, and simple moulded architraves to all the openings. Profile details of the mouldings are shown on the drawing

Scale

to multiple scales

Inscribed

John Rait of Anniston Esqr, Drawings for Finishing the Lobby / Copy / Part of Wood Pilasters at large, Wall Line, Wood Impost at large to Hall. / Wood Cap at large to Pilasters / Plaster Cornice at large to Wall / Door Side of Lobby, labelled: Plaster, Plaster, Stucco, Wood, Woodbead, Woodbead, Window, Door, Door, Stucco, Wood with dimensions given / Side opposite the door, Drawing room door / Woo Plinth at Large. / Angle Bead. Wood. Round windows and Outer door / Plaster Architrave round, Semicircular Archway of Recess / Side elevation to book room, labelled: Plaster, Plaster, Plain Ceiling. Plaster Cornice and Fascia Stucco sides and Dado, Wood Pilasters. Impost and Skirting, Narrow Architraves Sections. 1½ inch deal fixed Sashes with Wood Angles bead round do. Recess for Hatts and Coats, Door to Study or Bookroom / Plan of the Lobby, labelled: Drawing room, Plaster Soffite, Recess for hats and Coats, Dining room, Plaster Soffite, Book room, Stairs, Windw, Portico, Window. / Architrave at large to Door

Signed and dated

  • June 1786
    J. Playfair Archt. London June 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil with pink wash on laid paper (646x521)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

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