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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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