[46] Working drawing for bookcase mouldings

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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
      - Bookcases, shrine, panelling, fixings

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B23

Purpose

[46] Working drawing for bookcase mouldings

Aspect

Base Moldings of Bookcase & Base of Column

Scale

full size

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham, Gothic Library at Stowe, (?) Case, Brach---, Door, Door Rail, Top, Deal (twice) Floor, Base of Column, Rail ofDoor, Molding of Base, Bottom / Deal and some dimensions given (verso) Base molds of Room & Top of Bk Cases

Signed and dated

15/07/1805
Copy July 17 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and light red wash, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper with two fold marks (543 x 666)

Hand

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848)

Verso

Rough pencil details for mouldings inscribed 'Base Molds of / Room & Top of Bk cases'

Notes

Seward served his articles with Soane and stayed on a further nine years so was well qualified to make full size working drawings for the workmen.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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