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[37] Plan for outside sash (approved)
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Reference number
SM 33/3/B18
Purpose
[37] Plan for outside sash (approved)
Aspect
Plan of the Centre Window shewing the outside & inside Sashes
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
as above, The Marquis of Buckingham, Gothic Library Stowe, Folding Sash hung with Hinges (twice), Grooves for Wheel of Chair / may be either fixed or moveable, Should the Steps exceed / the whole width of the / Arch as here shewn or / only between the Grooves / for the wheel chair, This drawing approved by the Marq: of Buckingham & returned by Mr. Rothwell Nov.23 1805, Note the Steps to be executed as above, Design / No 1 and (feint pencil) The Steps to be / Executed at Stowe / to the Width between / the dotted Lines
Signed and dated
- 11/11/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields Novr 11th 1805
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil cancellations, black and yellow washes on laid paper, pricked for transfer (650 x 550)
Hand
The office Day Book gives Malton and Seward as working on Stowe, that is Charles Malton (1778-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809) and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808)
Notes
Designs 'No1' and 'No2' seem similar except that 'No1' has notes that allow for some flexibility - 'fixed or moveable'. There is mention of a 'Wheel Chair' - 'superimposed on the steps from the garden' (M.McCarthy, 'Soane's "Saxon" Room at Stowe', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XLIV, p.137) and the steps shown here have been cancelled.
Level
Drawing
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