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[192] Preliminary design and working drawing for the Breakfast Room, 2 August 1801
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Reference number
SM 31/4/24
Purpose
[192] Preliminary design and working drawing for the Breakfast Room, 2 August 1801
Aspect
Plan, wall elevation and details (verso) cropped section
Inscribed
labelled Lib: Hinge, Portfolios (twice), folding door, Cha (twice), Door Plan (twice), Table in / middle of / Room, Writing Table/ or/ qy for Large/ bookcase, ch (twice), Book (twice), Cornice, Dual folding door / to shut back flat, Closet for / unbound books, Spring. of Semi-circ[le] / window, Glass Pilaster (twice), arch, plan, wall line, recess (twice) and some dimensions and calculations given
Signed and dated
- 2 August 1801
aug: 2d. 1801
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen and pencil, partly pricked for transfer, on wove paper (579 x 359)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane
Soane
Watermark
94 (cut)
Literature
B. De Divitiis, 'New Drawings for the interiors of the Breakfast Room and Library at Pitzhanger Manor', Architectural History Vol 48, 2005, p.164
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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