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Reference number
SM volume 42/126
Purpose
Sketch design
Aspect
Elevation of a 15-bay building, the nine-bay, two-storey centre with a hexastyle portico is flanked by three-bay wings (almost as wide as the centre) each with three very tall and wide arched openings. The right-hand wing has a colonnaded upper storey with a dome. At each end is the profile of a porticoed entrance
Inscribed
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen on laid paper with three fold marks (201 x 252)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
? Taylor (pasted down)
Notes
The sketchy indications of a landscape suggest a country site and the drawing has been listed in the past as a 'design for a large country house'. The discordant scale of the centre to its wings and particularly to the tall domed wing is worrying as is the asymmetrical affect of the latter. However the left-hand wing has some sketchy vertical lines that suggest an alternative balancing storey to the right-hand domed structure. A noticeable feature is the number of entrances and the general permeability of the design. If this is a public building, it is difficult to establish its function. Mausolea were built in the countryside but this design does not relate to Soane's other designs for that building type. For ? related designs see 42/132.
Level
Drawing
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