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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