[22] Working drawing for the entrance screen, as executed, c. February 1794

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Reference number

SM volume 42/153

Purpose

[22] Working drawing for the entrance screen, as executed, c. February 1794

Aspect

Part-elevation; Plan; details of entablature and pediment; half-elevation of a lodge; cross-section; and detail of frieze on the gateway

Scale

to a scale, half [full] size

Inscribed

as above, lettered A to E, arch, arches on / the dotted / lines, wood, stone, stone, stone, niche, Section on BC, Arch, Half size, Three courses of brickwork, Tuesday 5 o Clock / Mr Mitford. / M^r Yorke's stable, dimensions and calculations given

Signed and dated

c. February 1794
datable to February 1794 (see notes in group-folder)

Medium and dimensions

brown pen, pencil on laid paper with one fold mark and folded to fit in volume (394 x 323)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), draughtsman
Soane

Watermark

Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval, and crowned GR

Literature

P. du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', 1975, cat.140-1; D. Adshead, Wimpole: architectural drawings and topographical views, 2007, p. 97.

Level

Drawing

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