[83] Early design for ceiling of drawing room

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Port Eliot, St German's, Cornwall: remodelling of interior and designs for new stables for 2nd Lord Eliot, 1804-6 (97 )
    - Designs and working drawings for fitting out library and drawing room, 1806 (8 )

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Reference number

SM 34/2/26

Purpose

[83] Early design for ceiling of drawing room

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for the Drawing Room

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Lord Eliot, Port Eliot, Windows to open to the Floor / Q^y [query] Raise this Room another Storey, The windows to come down within 6 Inches / of the Floor & 5 Squares high / The windows to splay 9 inches on each side / and at the top, The lower square of sashes fixed / The Dado to range with lower square of Sash / The Door to be 5ft 6in the opening and a few dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and light red wash, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (550 x 685)

Hand

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

Notes

The comment as to raising the roof by another storey must have come from Soane; the floor to ceiling height being about 15 feet 6 inches, dimensions that may have seemed insufficient. The ceiling is described by P.Dean (Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.106) as being Soane's 'shallowest dome'.

Level

Drawing

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