[2] Alternative preliminary design, March-April 1784

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  - Saxlingham Rectory, Norfolk: (executed) house for the Revd John Gooch, 1784-1787 (33)
    - Four alternative preliminary designs, March-April 1784 (8)

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Reference number

SM 28/1/8

Purpose

[2] Alternative preliminary design, March-April 1784

Aspect

No2 (Baldwin) and (added later by George Bailey, office assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60) Plan of the Principal Floor Design No 2 for The Rev^d John Gooch. The four-part, square plan (37½ by 38 feet) has the kitchen offices attached to one side and stables on the other - both with semicircular courts; (verso) (pencil) incomplete section showing the profiles of Block[ing course], Corn[ice], Top of Cap[ital] and string course

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled (Baldwin) Porch, Vestibule, Eating Parlor, Drawing Room, Library, Best Staircase, Servants Hall, Passage, Kitchen, Scullery, Pantry and (left-hand side) Coachouse and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1784
(added later by Bailey) 1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and black washes within black ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (361 x 519)

Hand

BALDWIN, Robert (fl. 1762--1787), draughtsman
Drawings 1-8 have all been attributed to Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804). The inscription of drawing 1 and the numbering of subsequent drawings are in his hand as are the room labels. Other drawings from Soane's early practice also attributed to Baldwin include drawings made for the dairy at Hammels Park, Blackfriars Bridge in Norwich and Letton Hall (q.q.q.v). All made in 1783-4 when Soane (who was without office help until he acquired his first pupil in September 1784) relied on ad hoc assistance from Baldwin. The rendered drawings (elevations) made for Saxlingham were evidently done in a hurry, lacking Baldwin's usual finesse but with his favoured green washes.

Watermark

C T & Son

Level

Drawing

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