[2] Plan and south wall elevation/section, April/May 1787

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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.
  - Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire: (unexecuted) picture gallery, (executed) chimney-pieces and a state bed for William Beckford, 1787-1788 (14)
    - Rough preliminary variant designs and final (unexecuted) design by ? George Dance for a picture gallery, April/May 1787 (7)

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Reference number

SM volume 57/31

Purpose

[2] Plan and south wall elevation/section, April/May 1787

Aspect

Section N^o 2: plan and south wall elevation/section, a variant of drawing 1 with the wall articulated by six pairs of Ionic pillasters and with four Ionic columns on a square plan forming a screen at the west end. The length is approximately 63 feet and the width the same as in drawing 1. The skylights are more widely spaced and the reflected ceiling plan shows a design for coffering.

Scale

to the same scale as drawing 1

Inscribed

as above, Skyli[ght] and (verso) Mr Beckford / Gallery

Signed and dated

April 1787 - May 1787
datable to April/May 1787 (see notes in group folder)

Medium and dimensions

brown pen on laid paper (184 x 298) Drawings 1-6 are on the same type of thin laid paper, each with three or four fold marks. All of the drawings are pasted into an album with (blue) sugar paper leaves (volume 57)

Hand

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

Watermark

not available (affixed at corners and edges)

Literature

For further reading see J. Lever, 'The Soane-Dance collaboration, 1771-1799', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 53, pp.163-190

Level

Drawing

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