[49] Design for chimneypiece with canopy

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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
      - Chimneypiece

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B55

Purpose

[49] Design for chimneypiece with canopy

Aspect

Elevation of the Chimney Piece with Plan of the Chimney

Scale

to a scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham, Gothic Library at Stowe, Canopy as in the drawing / of the opposite Compartment, Looking Glass (twice), Portrait of Mr Astle, White marble (twice) and 3 : 9

Signed and dated

11/11/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields Nov^r11^th 1805

Medium and dimensions

Green, blue, raw umber, sepia and light red washes, with triple ruled and sepia wash border, partly pricked for transfer, on wove paper (695 x 485)

Hand

The office Day Book gives as working on Stowe, Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809) and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808)

Notes

Regarding the 'Portrait of Mr Astle' see note to drawing [47] and see [54] for the executed fireplace.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

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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