[17] Design (largely unexecuted) for south and east fronts and breakfast room, 1797

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  - Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire: (executed) alterations and additions for Godfrey Thornton, 1790-1799 and Stephen Thornton, 1806-1811 (89)
    - Designs (largely unexecuted) for further alterations and additions, 1797 (3)

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Reference number

SM 3/3/17

Purpose

[17] Design (largely unexecuted) for south and east fronts and breakfast room, 1797

Aspect

Perspective of south and east fronts of the house and an interior View of Breakfast Room

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, Godfrey Thornton Esq^r, Design A & B and Design A

Signed and dated

5 July 1797
(Copy) Lincolns Inn Fields July 6: 1797 / Sent to M^rThornton July 5^th: 1797)
6 July 1797
(Copy) Lincolns Inn Fields July 6: 1797 / Sent to M^rThornton July 5^th: 1797)

Medium and dimensions

pen and sepia washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (565 x 339)

Hand

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Jeans, Seward, Good
(Thomas Jeans, pupil 1792-1797), Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) Henry Joseph Good (1775-1857, pupil 1795-1799) (from Day Book for 5 July 1797)
Henry Joseph Good (1775 - 1857), draughtsman
Jeans, Seward, Good
(Thomas Jeans, pupil 1792-1797), Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) Henry Joseph Good (1775-1857, pupil 1795-1799) (from Day Book for 5 July 1797)
Thomas Jeans, draughtsman
Jeans, Seward, Good
(Thomas Jeans, pupil 1792-1797), Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) Henry Joseph Good (1775-1857, pupil 1795-1799) (from Day Book for 5 July 1797)

Notes

Drawing 17 shows the east (entrance) and south fronts with the proposed bow front. The interior perspective of the breakfast room shows it lit by a bow with three full length windows and having a shallow canopy ceiling whose reeded saucer dome has a sunken central recess holding a patera. The breakfast room scheme was not carried out.

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