[61] Designs for crockets

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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
      - Shields, library doors

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Reference number

SM 33/3/1

Purpose

[61] Designs for crockets

Aspect

Sketch designs

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

C, A Crocket on point of / Canopies, B Crocket to tops of Pinnacles / on each side of do, C Moulding of Tracery on / front Between the Pinnacles / and at bottom or cieling of / Canopies

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (330 x 202)

Hand

Possibly
John Soane?

Watermark

C Patch 1794

Notes

Carved projections usually of stylized leaves placed on the sloping sides of spires, pinnacles, canopies etc., in Gothic architecture.

Level

drawing

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