[86] Working drawing for ceiling to drawing room

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Reference number

SM 34/2/25

Purpose

[86] Working drawing for ceiling to drawing room

Aspect

Plan of one Quarter / of the Cieling (sic)

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, The Right Hon^ble / The Lord Eliot, face of Cieling, F (full size), I Centre of Cieling, D E G E H, face of Cieling, E full size, D Cornice, Pilasterl / Capital, and a few dimensions given

Signed and dated

08/07/1806
Lincolns Inn Fields July 8^th1806

Medium and dimensions

Pen and light red wash, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (542 x 685)
Pen and light red wash, pricked for transfer on laid paper (548 x 686)

Hand

Charles Malton (1788-?) (pupil February 1802 - December 1809)
attributed to Charles Malton (1788-?) (pupil February 1802 - December1809)

Notes

This drawing is reproduced in Ptolemy Dean's Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, fig.7.18. Dean wrote that 'the round drawing room was especially difficult to resolve ... as here Soane had inherited the assymetrical location of three windows, a doorway and a chimneypiece. A harmonious solution was acheved by dividing the room into six equal bays whch reflected the form of the windows in blind openings. Regrettably, the pilasters which made these divisions were lost in a late-nineteenth-century remodelling. The window openines of the round drawing room were chamfered ... and provided with thin metal glazing bars. For the ceiling, Soane ... insert[ed] his shallowest dome. Built up with drisp plaster mouldings, it was incised with the same Greek key pattern that he had instroduced in his own breafast room at Pitshanger.'

Level

Drawing

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