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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 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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk