[4] Sketch design

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  - Castle Eden, County Durham: (executed) porch, (unexecuted) villa and stables for Rowland Burdon, October 1780 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/91

Purpose

[4] Sketch design

Aspect

Rough plan on a semicircle with a courtyard, amended (in pencil) to a full circle, part-perspective in a plain Classical style, and another perspective in a Gothic style

Inscribed

For 36 Horses, & 4 Coaches double for Castle Eden

Signed and dated

Datable to 1780

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil on laid paper with three fold marks (318 x 200)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

C Taylor

Notes

The design could not have been a serious proposal. Soane made a note in his sketchbook 'Stables for 30 horses & Carriage' but that seems rather large for a quite modest-sized house. (see Sketchbooks catalogue: 'Downhill' 1780-1, volume 82/19 verso)

Level

Drawing

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