[25] Rough design for north entrance front by Soane

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire): alterations and additions for W.H.Fellowes, 1804-07 (60)
    - Designs for north and south fronts, with record/survey drawings May - September 1804 (8)

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SM 46/5/12

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[25] Rough design for north entrance front by Soane

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Inscribed

W.H.Fellowes Esq^re/ At Ramsey Wed. Friday Sunday Post day at Ramsey

Signed and dated

21/08/1804
Aug: 21: 1804

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on coarse laid paper (511 x 594) with fold marks and some red wax

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Notes

Soane was at Ramsey Abbey on 21 August 1804 and made this drawing while there. The drawing is rough but away from his office Soane used a writing pen and ink and coarse drawing paper borrowed from the clerk of works. The design makes (Soane's first ?) use of lancet windows that refer back to the early 13th century.

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