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  • image SM volume 42/91

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

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