[7] Variant design to drawing [6]

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  - Tortworth Court (Gloucestershire): unexecuted designs for a pair of gate lodges in a Castle style for Lord Ducie and design for a prospect tower 1796 (12)

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Reference number

SM 62/8/27

Purpose

[7] Variant design to drawing [6]

Aspect

Front elevation

Scale

bar scale of 1½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

The Right Hon^ble Lord Ducie

Signed and dated

00/11/1796
Lincolns Inn Fields Nov^r 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and raw umber washes, pricked for transfer, with single ruled border on thin laid paper with old water stains (248 x 397)

Hand

Soane office hand (no entry in Day Book)

Notes

The same design as drawing [6] except that the gateway, which has railings in the middle, has an added pair of short castellated walls with lancet-headed arches making the composition wider and more imposing than in drawing [6].

Level

Drawing

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