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Reference number
SM 35/3/9
Purpose
[5] Sketch design
Aspect
Plans and elevations
Scale
to differing scales
Inscribed
John Thomson Esqre, Sketch of a Design for a Villa, labelled Bill[iards], Eating Room, Cons[ervatory]y, Mr Thomson, Hall, Court, Offices, (small plan) Mr T, Drawg and illegible
Signed and dated
- 1804
1804
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, shading, hatched, some pencil on laid paper (556 x 343)
Hand
Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)
Notes
The design follows on from drawing [4] but with the first floor three-bay centre made smaller and better proportioned. The small plan is a variant with, for the first time, the right-hand front having a large shallow bow and, on the opposite side, the usual bow now contained within the building lline.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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