[5] Design for addition of a drawing room

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Cardigan House, Richmond Hill: survey drawings and designs for additions, 1795-1797 (6)

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Reference number

SM 62/9/7

Purpose

[5] Design for addition of a drawing room

Aspect

Plan of the One Pair Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, His Royal Highness / The Duke of Clarence, Plan of the One Pair Floor, Drawing Room and Anti Room

Signed and dated

24/01/1797
Lincolln Inn Fields Jan^y24^th 1797

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and llight red washes, pricked for transfer with quadruple ruled pen and black wash border on laid paper (367 x 524)

Hand

The office Day Book for 24 January 1797 has the entry 'The Duke of Clarence / about Drawings of alterations / to house at Richmond / Jeans / Seward' that is Thomas Jeans (c.1775-1866), pupil August 1792 - 25 August 1797 and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848), pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808

Watermark

Fleur de lis within crowned cartouche and below, ornate W

Notes

Soane's addition provides a 20 x 40 foot drawing room with two large alcoves.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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