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Reference number

SM volume 42/103

Purpose

Sketch designs

Aspect

Plan, elevation and section for a house with a portico; plan, sections and part-elevation of a church

Inscribed

(house) some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • datable to c.1778-80

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, some pencil on laid paper with four fold marks (184 x 373, top torn and lacking)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

n/a pasted down

Notes

Of two storeys with a vaulted basement, the house is 94 feet 10½ inches wide and with a 14 foot deep portico. The church has an apse with an altar and the cross section shows a Diocletian window at the west end. The Roman character of the designs as well as the worn and damaged paper suggests that these rough designs may have been made by Soane when he was in Italy, 1778-80.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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