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[6] Design for additions to ground floor
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Reference number
SM 35/1/6
Purpose
[6] Design for additions to ground floor
Aspect
Plan of ground floor
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 ich to 1 foot
Inscribed
The Viscount Valentia, Design for the Alterations and Additions to the Manor at Camelin Park,
Library, drawing Room Lobby, Staircase, Saloon or Gallery, Entrance Hall, Ante-Room, Eating Room, Staircase, Lord V's Dressing / Room, Lord V's Study, Water Closet and Closet
Signed and dated
- 00/02/1815
February 1815
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink and black washes, with triple ruled and wash border on wove paper (574 x 915)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane office
Soane office
Notes
There are four (surviving) schemes from the Soane office for enlarging the house. All were concerned with the principal storey and relied on adding to each flank. Soane's part-sketch plan (drawing [3]) has a portico and this was developed in subsquent drawings with four columns becoming eight columns. The link between exisiting and new work seems best when done on an arc (drawings [4] and [6].
Level
drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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