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  • image SM volume 42/75

Reference number

SM volume 42/75

Purpose

Tracing of designs

Aspect

Details of Entab.[lature] to door with Ornamt in frieze / the same as round the room and Arch.[itrave] enr.[iched] as the / Windows for Lady Clive's Dressing room; and entablature and architrave over and around Library door cap[ital] at Claremont

Scale

¼ full size

Inscribed

as above, some dimensions given and £1: 10s

Signed and dated

  • datable to c. 1771-4

Medium and dimensions

Pen on tracing paper (161 x 134)

Hand

traced by Soane, Henry Holland office

Notes

The ancon of the door in Lady Clive's dressing room is similar to that on a design for a chimney-piece for the same room 42/65 (q.v.). Lord Clive's dressing room became the library soon after the contract was signed between client and architect in February 1771.

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