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Reference number

SM 35/3/6

Purpose

[6] Sketch design

Aspect

Plans

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

John Thomson Esqre / Sketch of a Design for a Villa, labelled Drawing Room, Eating Room, Billiards, Mr T, MrsThomsons / Room, Court, Hall (small plan) Eat [ing room], Bill[iards room]

Signed and dated

  • 1804
    1804

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, hatching, some pencil, on laid paper (556 x 342)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Notes

This villa design is smaller than the others. It is three rooms wide and two or three rooms deep. The front portico has six columns and is wider than earlier designs and is not recessed. The sketchy thumb-nail plan re-arranges the left-hand side of the larger plan.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk