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[53] Sketch from south east
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Reference number
SM volume 59/65
Purpose
[53] Sketch from south east
Aspect
Perspective of South Front
Inscribed
as above, Ramsey Abbey
Signed and dated
- 08/06/1806
June 8 1806 / HSS
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia wash, shaded, on laid paper (195 x 332)
Hand
Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Notes
These informal sketches are signed 'HHS' by Henry Hake Seward. Since office drawings were never signed the drawings must have been made for himself though later added to one of Soane's (record) volumes.
The sketch is dated 8 June 1806 and the very first drawings for Ramsey are dated 12 May 1804. In Soanes' Office Journal there is an entryfor 6 June 1806 - 'Seward & Adams set / out for Ramsey to meas: [ure]/ the Works, ret.[urned]June 15'. The measuring up would have been to calculate the amount of work done in order to pay the various tradesmen and also to estimate the work still required to be done. Perhaps Seward's sketches gloss over the unfinished work and the untidy character of a building site.
The sketch is dated 8 June 1806 and the very first drawings for Ramsey are dated 12 May 1804. In Soanes' Office Journal there is an entryfor 6 June 1806 - 'Seward & Adams set / out for Ramsey to meas: [ure]/ the Works, ret.[urned]June 15'. The measuring up would have been to calculate the amount of work done in order to pay the various tradesmen and also to estimate the work still required to be done. Perhaps Seward's sketches gloss over the unfinished work and the untidy character of a building site.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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