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Working drawings and record drawings for finishings to the drawing room, August and September 1797 (4)

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On 24 September 1797, Soane visited Tyringham and settled the drawing room's ceiling design. Drawings 123 and 124 are working drawings for the ceiling and drawings 125 and 126 are record copies entered into volume 64 by a pupil. As in drawing 125, the bowed drawing room has three windows on its north wall that are balanced by two opposing alcoves and a south-facing door. The chimney-piece, to the west, is between ornamented panelled pilasters.

As in drawing 124, the ceiling has a Greek fret motif radiation from a central rosette and framed by an ornamental band of acorns and oak leaves (drawing 126).

The drawing room frieze is the same serpentine-and-acanthus moulding decorating the Bank Stock Office (q.v. volume 74/39), an appropriate decorative reference for Soane's banker client.

See drawing 142 for a preliminary design of the drawing room ceiling, with a Greek fret motif as in drawing 124, made on a sheet that was later reused for making drawings of the organ case.

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