[87] Working drawing for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790

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  - Bentley Priory, Harrow, London: (executed) two additions, outbuildings and an entrance hall addition for John James Hamilton, later 9th Earl, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1788-1799, 1805 (178)
    - Working drawings for finishings to the drawing room, 15-21 October 1790 (3)

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Reference number

SM 77/3/43

Purpose

[87] Working drawing for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790

Aspect

Details of moldings for the door pannels / full size for the drawing / room; plan of architraves to windows and doors; base and surbase moldings; manner of finishing the door and window architraves; plan and elevation of door; and elevation of shutter

Scale

full size, half size, bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquiss of Abercorn, C 3/4 flush beads, a all equal in heigh / Door jaumbs to be pannel'd / as the shutters respecting their / heights tho' cut 1'6" wide / The shutters to be the whole / width as sketch b, finishings to doors in drawing room, elevations lettered a to c, NB The same moldings for the shutter / pannel 1"7/8 on the face, full / 3/4 an / inch / thick, Observe to leave a 3/4 bead / at the tops and bottoms of all / the shutters, wall line, wall line, dimensions given, and inscriptions laid out in pencil

Signed and dated

21 October 1790
Copy Oct^r21^st1790

Medium and dimensions

pencil, pen and grey and pink washes on laid paper (672 x 555)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane office

Level

Drawing

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