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Reference number

SM volume 42/130

Purpose

Design

Aspect

Three ground floor plans: A - square plan (50 by 50 feet) with porticoed, bowed entrance with hall, four reception rooms, principal and secondary stairs, and with a plan of WC and room marked 7 by 13; B - rectangular plan (64 by 40 feet), the location of the stairs unresolved; C - rectangular plan of the same size as B but with an alternative layout

Scale

bar scales of 15/32, 12/32 and 9/32 in to 10 ft approximately

Inscribed

some dimensions given and (pencil) Artificial flowers - w[it]h foliage at Mr (?) Luteral / Sea weed

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil with single ruled border on laid paper with three fold marks (295 x 176, top LH corner missing)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

n/a pasted down

Notes

Neatly drawn to different small scales, Soane has made pencil alterations to the stairs in all three schemes. Overall, the villas are much the same size, thus A is 2500 square feet and B and C 2560 square feet. The exercise seems to be about resolving the location of the principal and secondary staircases.

Level

Drawing

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

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