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[20] Working drawing for roof to the Great Hall/saloon, 1790
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Reference number
SM 77/1/34
Purpose
[20] Working drawing for roof to the Great Hall/saloon, 1790
Aspect
A Plan of the lead Covering to great Hall and section of roof truss
Scale
full size
Inscribed
as above, Chillington, labelled Servants Hall Roof, Old Wall, note to section: This Section is as the principal Beams AA / are trussed. the curve line is the form of the Cieling / under those two Beams // I have in consequence of the old wall being very bad / next the Stairs cut thro' it & work'd up the new Pier mark'd / L on the Plan which will bear one end of a trussed / Timber which Timber will carry the ends of 2 Pair of / principal Rafters and labelled Old Wall, Bed Room &c over / Servants Hall
Signed and dated
- 27 May 1790
Laing May 27 1790
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, yellow and pink washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on thin laid paper (685 x 555)
Hand
Laing, David (1774--1856), draughtsman
David Laing (pupil 8 January 1790-96)
David Laing (pupil 8 January 1790-96)
Notes
David Laing (1774-1856) signed this copy of a drawing, made barely five months after he began his pupilage, which was not the usual practice within Soane's office. The 'I' of the note about working up 'the new Pier' came from the carpenter'. Laing's entry in H. Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840, 2008, shows that he was the son of a 'cork cutter' of Tower Street, London. After completing his articles, Laing set up in practice for himself and was doing very well, designing the London Custom House in 1817 with 'an elegant neo-classical design of considerable merit'. Unfortunately, through either gross incompetence or collusion, part of the facade collapsed in 1825 and Laing 'had difficulty obtaining any further commissions'.
Level
Drawing
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