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[2] Design and presentation drawing, 1783
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Reference number
SM volume 68/6
Purpose
[2] Design and presentation drawing, 1783
Aspect
Plan of the Dairy at Hamells drawn three-dimensionally
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 in to 1 ft (approximately)
Inscribed
as above, Dairy 17'6" by 14'6" / Scalding Room 12'6" by 12'6" and loggia, or receding Portico 9'6" by 8' / Strawberry Room 12'6" by 12'6" and labelled Dairy, Scalding Room, Loggia and Strawberry Room
Signed and dated
- 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes, shaded, pencil setting out lines for a perspective, within a double ruled border on laid paper bound into volume 68 (333 x 495)
Hand
BALDWIN, Robert (fl. 1762--1787), draughtsman
Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804)
Robert Baldwin (fl. 1762-c.1804)
Literature
D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, pp.63, 119: P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.231, 249, 251-2, 257, 264; P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165; P.Dean, 'Early practice; country houses and the primitive', catalogue 38-9 in M.Richardson and M.Stevens, John Soane architect: master of Space and light, 1999.
Level
Drawing
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