[6] Alternative 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
- Town houses
  - London: Cardigan House, Richmond Hill: survey drawings and designs for additions, 1795-1797 (6)

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Reference number

SM 62/9/6

Purpose

[6] Alternative 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 and labelled Draiwng Room and Anti Room

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields Jan^y 24^th 1797

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red and blue washes, pricked for transfer with quadruple ruled and black wash border on laid paper (370 x 523)

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, GR 1794

Notes

The alternative design for enlarging the house, has a drawing room 40 by 30 feet on the north and east sides of the house together with an unlabelled room measuring 11 by 34 feet.

Level

Drawing

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

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