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[5] Working drawing for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 27 April 1793
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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 8/3/32
Purpose
[5] Working drawing for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 27 April 1793
Aspect
Longitudinal sections through hothouses to accompany drawing 4 with small rough (pencil) plan
Scale
feint pencil bar scale of 1/8 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Vines (twice) Peaches (twice)
Signed and dated
- 27 April 1793
April 27 1793 / The Earl of Hardwick / Plan & Elevations / of Vinery &c
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, pencil on thin (secretary) laid paper with four fold marks (311 x 389)
Hand
Soane office (SM Day Book missing)
Watermark
Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval frame and GR crowned
Literature
D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, p.119: P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165
Level
Drawing
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