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[108] Working drawing for an unidentified chimney-piece, April to July 1791
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 81/1/18
Purpose
[108] Working drawing for an unidentified chimney-piece, April to July 1791
Aspect
Details of unidentified chimney piece with strigilated corners and sunk circular bosses; and rough part-elevation
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Wall line, face of centre block / line of end block, 1'6" 13/16 from centre block which is 7"¼ square, cable from floor line ½ inch, floor line, (pencil) The Marquiss of Abercorn
Signed and dated
- April 1791 - July 1791
Datable to April to July 1791 in accord with the dates on drawings 105-107
Medium and dimensions
pencil and pen on cartridge paper (622 x 504)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane office
Soane office
Notes
Drawing 108 is for an unidentified chimney-piece. The drawing is labelled as for the Marquess of Abercorn, thus dating it to after October 1790 (when Lord Abercorn inherited his title). The Marquess's title attributes the drawing to Soane's second phase of building works at Bentley Priory. The chimney-piece appears to follow a similar design as that drawn for the music room in Earsham, Norfolk (q.v.) in 1784 (see SM 81/1/70), and that at John Patteson's house in Surrey Street, Norwich (q.v.), c.1790 . The chimney-piece at Earsham has a quarter-pilaster motif of reeds bound with bowed ribbons. As in drawing 108, strigilated flutes beside sunk circular bosses are above the reeded jambs, and a larger boss is centred on the frieze.
Level
Drawing
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