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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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