[43] Finished design for wall opposite chimney

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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/B54

Purpose

[43] Finished design for wall opposite chimney

Aspect

The Plan and Elevation of the Compartment opposite the Chimney / intended to contain the Shrine

Scale

to a scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquiss of Buckingham, labelled: Looking Glass (twice), The dotted lines / shew the Shrine, Bookcase (twice), Shrine, Pedestal for / figures or / Light

Signed and dated

11/11/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields No^vr 11^th 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, green, sepia, pink and blue washes, with triple ruled and sepia washed border, slightly pricked for transfer, on wove paper (696 x 485)

Hand

The office Day Book for 11 November 1805 gives Malton and Seward as working on Stowe, that is Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809) and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808). Malton, in particular, perhaps contributing to the 'artistic' addition of washes.

Notes

McCarthy ('Soane's "Saxon" Room at Stowe, p.139) writes 'This area was to be dressed similarly to the bookcase doors, but instead of shelving it was to contain another memento of Thomas Astle in the form of a carved wooden polyptych of the Crucifixion, also flanked by mirrored panels beneath which marble pedestals were to be placed... it is doubtful if either the portrait or polyptych were ever placed in these locations'.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996
Giving Our Past a Future: The Work of the World Monuments Fund Britain, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 26 October 2012 - 26 January 2013

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