[3] 'Last' presentation design, 1778 or 1779

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Downhill, County Derry, Northern Ireland: (unexecuted) summer dining room, alterations and additions for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, 1778-1780 (11)
    - 'Last' presentation design, 1778 or 1779 (1)

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Reference number

SM 45/3/7

Purpose

[3] 'Last' presentation design, 1778 or 1779

Aspect

Floor plan and laid-out wall elevations/sections of a room with shallow domed ceiling on an oval plan, supported by eight detached Corinthian columns. The apsidal end with three windows is at the west end opposite a wall with a niche between two doors, and a long north wall with chimney-piece and two alcoves opposite another with three tall sash windows. The design of the stone floor echoes that of the coffered (elliptical) domical ceiling.

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, Bishop of Derry. Copy of the last design for the Eating Room and (added later, pencil) 41 lect 7 (added later, red pen) 593

Signed and dated

1778 - 1779
J. Soan Arch^tRome

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light green, Indian red and black washes, shaded within triple ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (641 x 909)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

J Honig & Zoonen and bee-hive on a cartouche

Literature

P. du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.141-144; P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.114-118

Level

Drawing

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