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Reference number

SM 42/129

Purpose

[2] Survey drawing for the addition of wings

Aspect

Rough elevation of South front of Allanbank

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

as above, Basement Story 7'/10" Clear Ht (floor to ceiling height of 7 feet 10 inches), (feint pencil) Grd line, Basement Story / 7.10 / Floor 1.0 and a small sum

Signed and dated

  • 1780

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid paper with two fold marks (226 x 201) in an album of 'Original Sketches' volume 42

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.113-14, 118-20
D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.49-50
J.Ingamells, Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, 1997
G.Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, p.601
G.Stamp, 'Soane in Glasgow', Georgian Group Journal, LXIII, 2003, p.196. fn.

Level

Drawing

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

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