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  • image SM volume 42/65

Reference number

SM volume 42/65

Purpose

Tracing of design

Aspect

Part-elevation with elongated ancon between frieze and plinth-block and wreathed rosettes on frieze, and details of entablature with leaf-enriched mouldings

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • datable to c. 1771-4

Medium and dimensions

Pen on tracing paper (160 x 127, part cut out)

Hand

traced by Soane, Henry Holland office

Notes

'relates closely to a chimney piece in another of the first floor bedrooms' (Howard Farrar, Claremont Fan Court School, 23 July 2001) which was probably Lady Clive's dressing room since the same ancon detail is found on a design for a doorcase (42/75) for that room.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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