[64] Design for proposed west front of house and view of church

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Port Eliot, St German's, Cornwall: remodelling of interior and designs for new stables for 2nd Lord Eliot, 1804-6 (97 )
    - Perspective designs for house and church (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 59/74

Purpose

[64] Design for proposed west front of house and view of church

Aspect

Perspective

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes with single ruled border on wove paper (252 x 458)

Hand

Attributed to Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.

Notes

This is the only drawing that shows the face of Soane's proposed west elevation for the house; survey drawing [53] shows it as found. The collapse of the north aisle in the church in 1802 was what brought Soane to Port Eliot. Humphry Repton (1752-1818) in his Red Book of 1793 for Port Eliot had advocated linking the house with the church but this was not something that Soane explored. (P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.104).

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996

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

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