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[4] Plan of library and lobby as [3]
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Reference number
SM 33/3/B44
Purpose
[4] Plan of library and lobby as [3]
Aspect
The Plan with the proposed Alterations No1
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, The Marquis of Buckingham / Gothic Library (Stowe), Lobby, AB, CD, EF, GH, MN, OP, RS, equal (twice)
Signed and dated
- 15/03/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields March 15th 1805
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes, with triple ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper, pricked for transfer (705 x 495)
Hand
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808) and Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809).
The entry in the Soane office Day Book for 15 March 1805 has ' About drawings of / Saxon Room at Stowe'. Nowadays Saxon or Anglo-Saxon is generally thought of as the period from AD 410 (the retreat of the Romans) and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Gothic succeeded Norman architecture.
The entry in the Soane office Day Book for 15 March 1805 has ' About drawings of / Saxon Room at Stowe'. Nowadays Saxon or Anglo-Saxon is generally thought of as the period from AD 410 (the retreat of the Romans) and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Gothic succeeded Norman architecture.
Notes
A neatly drawn copy of drawing [3].
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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