[26] Further variant design for entrance front and (verso) preliminary lesene design

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Combe House, Gittisham, Honiton, Devonshire: designs for alterations and additions, 1805-1808 and designs for a new house,1811 for Reymundo Putt, 1805-1811 (40 )
    - Designs for a new house, November-December, 1811 (21)
      - Design for a new house, with Ionic order (dated November 1811)

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Reference number

SM 35/4/8

Purpose

[26] Further variant design for entrance front and (verso) preliminary lesene design

Aspect

Design for the Entrance Front and (verso) early versions of designs A and B for a scheme modulated by lesenes

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above and ReymundoPutt Esq^re (verso) Half Elevation /A, half Elevation B and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

00/11/1811
Nov^r 1811 (verso) 18 Nov^r1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, shaded, on wove paper (335 x 469) and (verso) pencil, pen, brown pen and sepia wash

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)
Verso: Soane, over Soane office hand.
George Basevi (1794 - 1845)
Recto: George Basevi, pupil December 1810 - June 1816.

Notes

Essentially the recto design is close to drawing [25] recto but the windows on each side are left bare. The 'lesene' design on the verso precedes the following drawings [27-33] where a lesene motif is used.

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