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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 42/67
Purpose
Tracing of design
Aspect
Part-elevation of chimney-piece with oval looking glass with ribboned festoons, and details of mouldings
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Mouldings for Chimneypiece to / little Dressg Room over / Great dressing Room Claremont, labelled A to F, 2½ G [uineas for medallions on frieze?], 4 Guineas and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- datable to c. 1741-4
Medium and dimensions
Pen on tracing paper (271 x 120)
Hand
traced by Soane, Henry Holland office
Notes
The looking glass with festoons and bows and the chimney-piece with swags and drops as well as medallions seems rather feminine (see 42/67 for a chimney-piece for Lady Clice's dressing room). The 'Great dressing Room' may refer to Lord Clive's dressing room, that soon became a library, on the ground floor.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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