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Reference number

SM volume 80/11

Purpose

[6f] Rough plans for alterations and additions extracted from Downhill note/sketchbook, 27 July - 2 September 1780

Aspect

f.11 recto. (pencil) Rough part-plan with proposed entrance corridor 10.0 feet wide, twin bow-fronted west gallery, 60.0 feet long, and rough part-section. In the 1780s the west side was extended north for a new gallery with twin bows

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • 27 July 1780 - 2 September 1780
    (notebook cover) SAT. JULY 27 TO / SAT. SEPT 2

Medium and dimensions

Pen unless pencil stated on laid paper, 47 leaves (sic, one missing) stitched into stout (buff coloured) paper covers 183 x 118

Hand

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

Literature

P.du Prey, 'Je n'oublieray jamais: John Soane and Downhill', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, XXI Noas 3&4, 1978, pp.26-36

Level

Drawing

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

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