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Reference number

SM volume 42/154

Purpose

[31] Working drawing for columns

Aspect

Elevation/section and elevation of column and entablature

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot approximately

Inscribed

Wood brick flints between brick Tryglyphs and some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil on laid paper with four fold marks (205 x 225) in volume 42 p.154

Watermark

C Hatch 1794

Notes

The order is a baseless Doric one, using wood with bark for the two columns together with brick and flints for the frieze so that the toothing or triglyphs were of brick with flints in between.

Literature. D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.177-9; P.Dean, 'Country houses and the Primitive' in M.Richardson and Stevens, John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, pp.114-21

Level

Drawing

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

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