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[6g] Rough plans for alterations and additions extracted from Downhill note/sketchbook, 27 July - 2 September 1780
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM volume 80/11 verso-12
Purpose
[6g] Rough plans for alterations and additions extracted from Downhill note/sketchbook, 27 July - 2 September 1780
Aspect
f.11 verso and f.12 recto. Rough but neat part-plan showing the existing stair with Soane's proposed WCs and extending northwards a new west wing that includes a room, 36.0 by 24.0 feet with wide semicircular alcoves at each end (56 feet total length) and windows on one side only; with 2 sections showing the internal decoration, labelled door
Scale
1/16 in to 1ft
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
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
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