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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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