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Reference number

SM 33/3/B4

Purpose

[58] Design No 1 for shield (and library doors)

Aspect

Elevation of door with shield

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

The Marquis of Buckingham / Details for Gothic Library at Stowe, Molding, Note / If the shields are not used / in the cieling They may be / introduced in the doors as shewn / at B which will require / No 28 of them // The shields being small / would suit the doors / much more than / the Cieling: & the roses / being introduced to / terminate the points / of the Curves EE / would give variety / & is likewise agreeable / to the Chapel of Henry VII, B, 2 --, No1

Signed and dated

  • 1805
    1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, red, yellow and blue washes on laid paper with several fold marks (433 x 303)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837)
The drawing is not by Soane but the added note is in his hand.

Notes

Apparently the shields could have been used for the ceiling or for the doors.

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

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk