[19] Working drawing for a column

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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.
  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
    - Library
      - Designs and working drawings for the lobby

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B29

Purpose

[19] Working drawing for a column

Aspect

Plan (and elevations) of the Column Lobby adjoining Gothic Library - Stowe

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, The Marq: of Buckingham, Capital full size, Base of Column, The large Rib marked b.b. in the Plan to / be the same as the large Rib in the back / The Rib a.a. the same as the smaller one / in the same Cast, Stone, Stucco, Base of Column, Capital full size, and N^o 5

Signed and dated

16/07/1805
Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields July 16 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and red wash, on laid paper (670 x 553)

Hand

The office Day Book for 16 July 1805 has Storace doing this drawing, that is Brinsley John Storace (pupil April 1804 - February 1807)

Notes

Drawing [17] has another reference to Henry VII Chapel. See also drawings [55] - [57] for more designs for capitals presumably for the lobby/stair?

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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