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  - Bagshot Park, Surrey: survey drawings and designs for entrance with lodges for H.M. Woods and Forests, 1798-9 (8)

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Reference number

SM 62/9/14

Purpose

[3] Survey section

Aspect

Section on the line a b

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Bagshot Lodge, vertical dimensions given

Signed and dated

04/08/1798
Lincolns Inn Fields Aug^st: 4^th: 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen and light red wash on thin laid paper with 3 fold marks, pricked for transfer (375 x 487)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. Henry Hake Seward and George Mansfield. Information from Soane office Day Book.
George Mansfield
Surveyor 1 May 1797 - December 1808.

Watermark

fleur de lis and IV

Notes

The section shows differing first floor levels so that the ground floor on left-hand side measures 14 feet 2½ inches high while the opposite side measures 12 feet 4½ inches. In the middle there is a substantial (4 feet thick) wall. Conventionally, a red wash shows new work, so that here, walls and floors are apparently all new?

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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