[148] Variant design for the entrance hall, ground floor plan, rough elevation, 28 April 1798

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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.
  - 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)
    - Variant designs for the entrance hall, showing the introduction of semicircular-plan alcoves (3)

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Reference number

SM 30/2/50

Purpose

[148] Variant design for the entrance hall, ground floor plan, rough elevation, 28 April 1798

Aspect

Ground floor plan; part-plan of entrance hall beside the old wall; and rough elevation of the arched entrance

Scale

bar scale of 4/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

The plan of the intended entrance at Bentley Priory, The Marquiss of Abercorn, 29 feet 1½ inches, 12 feet, 20 feet, covered with Lead, (Soane) closet (twice), old wall, risers numbered 1 to 19 (twice, in pen and pencil) (Soane, pencil) arch (five times), flat, flat cielg

Signed and dated

28 April 1798
Lincolns Inn Fields April 28: 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and grey and pink washes on wove paper (650 x 557)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808)
Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Soane and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808)

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Drawing

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