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[8] Working drawing for the drawing room chimney-piece, 27 March 1790
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Reference number
SM 81/1/36
Purpose
[8] Working drawing for the drawing room chimney-piece, 27 March 1790
Aspect
Elevation of chimney-piece and details of Mouldings at large
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to one foot and full size
Inscribed
as above, Plan of the Pilasters & Architrave / full size, Plan of frize, Mouldings sunk to Tablet full size, Soffite of Corona, flutes, Line of Tablet in Chimney Piece Center, Line of Blocking, Depth to the Ornament in side frize, Wall line, The whole to be of the best Statuary Marble, as free as / possible from Veins, Stains, Vents &c, (pencil, in another hand) No 14 White Marble / omit the Enrichment (marked) X (Vitruvian scroll moulding), (pencil) Omit the / Ribbon (on jamb), John Raymond Barker Esqr
Signed and dated
- 27 March 1790
Copy 27 March 1790
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and black wash, partly pricked for transfer on thin laid paper (557 x 663)
Hand
Sanders, John (1768--1826), draughtsman
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)
Level
Drawing
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