[12] Design for a prospect tower

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  - Tortworth Court (Gloucestershire): unexecuted designs for a pair of gate lodges in a Castle style for Lord Ducie and design for a prospect tower 1796 (12)

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Reference number

SM 90/1/17

Purpose

[12] Design for a prospect tower

Aspect

Plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(later hand) Sir John Soane and (another later hand on verso) Soane / C.J>Richardson / Coll / Tortworth and a square orange ink stamp

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash on wove paper (296 x 330)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing was purchased from the Professor Sir Albert Richardson sale, at Christies, September 2013 (lot 158, part).
There is in the Soane Museum's green box files underTortworth, an (indistinct) photocopy of a photograph (Conway Neg. L12/22/(28) (Gloucs) of a plan and elevation for a prospect tower. This came up for sale at Christies, 30 November, 1983, lot 80. The plan is the same as the one cataloged above. The elevation shows a four-storey building: the ground floor with three entrances each fronted by a pair of columns, the first floor windowed and with a balcony, the second floor a supporting drum with columns to a dome crowned by a statue.

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Drawing

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