[89] Design 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)
    - Designs for finishings to the drawing room, 16-21 October 1790 (3)

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SM 30/2/77

Purpose

[89] Design for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790

Aspect

Plan and laid-out wall elevations

Scale

to a scale

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Finishings to Drawing Room, The Marquiss of Abercorn, lettered (Soane) A to C corresponding with key (Soane)': A.A.A. meeting rails, one frame to throw up into the head / The windows are to be splayed all found / observing that the heads are as high as / the brickwork & lintels will permit // The height of the architraves to the windows / determines the height of the architrave / to the doors. // The pannels over the door are to be / left as described in the section of the / Eating Room // The dado is to be 2 feet 6 high; the plinths / to range with the plain parts under the sashes. // B Shutters to be cast at this rail // The beads on the margins of the shutters to range with the / bar of the sashes C, I did not suppose it possible for any more errors / to be made in copying this drawing, but / CC were always (except in this drawing) shewn as / windows & must be so in the execution; this act of / stupidity & shameful inattention can only / be corrected by another drawing being made / directly, as the whole business stands / still. / J.S., This drawing may be kept as a copy (I do not / mean of the Blunders arising from inattention / every drawing lately made in the office will / bear testimony on that head) least the workmen / should be equally careless with the draughtsmen / & light their fire with it in their dreams instead of shavings and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

21 October 1790
Albion Place Oct^r21^st1790

Medium and dimensions

pen and grey and pink washes on laid paper (676 x 551)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane office and Soane
Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane office and Soane

Level

Drawing

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