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[2] Working drawing for a music room, December 1784
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Reference number
SM 81/1/70
Purpose
[2] Working drawing for a music room, December 1784
Aspect
Elevation and full size details for chimney-piece and (verso) sketch detail of slab 2' : 6" high and note: Marble Covings / Iron hearth
Scale
1 inch to 1 foot (approximately) and full size
Inscribed
as above, Willm Windham Esqr, Entablature full size, Flutes, Plan, Line of Tablet B, Line of Frieze, Projection of Cornice, (Soane) The Slab to extend ¼ of an / inch on each side beyond / the Circular Pilaster, A B (twice) C, The whole to be white Marble and some dimensions given
Verso, (clerk ?) Mr Windham / Chimney piece & Moldings at / full Size, Wm Windham Esq / Chimney peice (sic) for Bungay / 1785, (bottom line of an address) Westmr
Signed and dated
- December 1784
Decr 1784
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia wash, pencil, shaded, (reeded detail) pricked for transfer on thick laid paper with five fold marks (587 x 485)
Hand
Sanders, John (1768--1826) - Library - Catalogs, draughtsman
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) with notes by Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) with notes by Soane
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) with notes by Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) with notes by Soane
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.13-16,18-19 (reproduces Note Book sketches); D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd edition, 1996, p.124, plates 64-5; P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.170; N.Pevsner and B.Wilson, Norfolk 2: north-west and south, 2nd ed., 1999, pp.315-16
Level
Drawing
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