[9] The portico, 4 May 1810

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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.
  - Colombery House, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands: alterations for Clement Hemery, 1810 (9)

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Reference number

SM 46/4/5

Purpose

[9] The portico, 4 May 1810

Aspect

Plan, elevation & section of Portico

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, (of the section) A. Level of Old Slate Floor / B. Do New Floor / C. Level of old Basement Floor D / New Basement Floor (cut edge) nt Hemery Esqr / Jersey

Signed and dated

04/05/10
L.I.Fields / May 4^th1810

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes on wove paper (673 x 528)

Hand

Francis Edwards (1784-1857, improver July 1806-October 1810), George Bailey (1792-1860) (pupil, assistant August 1806-January 1837), George Allen Underwood (1792 - 1829) (assistant 29 September 1807 - May 1815) and Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793-1872) (pupil June 1807 - January 1814)

Notes

Soane's re-casting of Clement Hemery's house trasnformed it from a neat and tidy , perfetly decent house lacking imagination shared by master and servants into something more urbane and where the servants became less visible.

JL 2017

Level

drawing

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

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