Record drawings of the gated entrance, one dated 30 July 1832 (2)

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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.
  - Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London: (executed) a house for John Soane and six unexecuted schemes for a villa at Acton, 1800-1832 (285)
    - Pitzhanger Manor recorded, 1832 (50)

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Record drawings of the gated entrance, one dated 30 July 1832 (2)

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Of drawings 236 and 237 the former is obviously a preliminary sketch for the latter. They show the gated entrance to Pitzhanger with its two side gates and a partial view of the lodge on the right. All the hallmarks of Soane's earlier designs for the structure are there, and Richardson has shown only a glimpse of the house, in keeping with Soane's ideas on angles of perspective and the Picturesque.

One difference from earlier designs for the gated entrance can be seen in the addition of vase finials in place of pine-cones surmounting the canopy dome caps. At this stage, Soane indulged in a certain amount of theoretical re-design in the light of changed circumstances; the finial alteration could well be a feature of this.

These sketchbook volumes contain watercolours all by Soane's pupil C. J. Richardson, many of them being signed or initialled and in the same hand.

See also drawing 240 for a view of the entrance gateway.

Literature

B. De Divitiis, 'Plans, Elevations and Perspective Views of Pitzhanger Manor-House', pp. 55-74, The Georgian Group Journal Vol XIV, 2004, p.55

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