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Reference number
SM volume 42/133
Purpose
Sketch revised design
Aspect
Plan and front elevation
See Tyringham House, drawing 85, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/133
See Tyringham House, drawing 85, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/133
Scale
bar scale (pricked for transfer) of 1/13 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
rooms labelled Green H[ouse], Drawg [room], Eat [in]g [room], Bill[iard]d Room and (?) Airey
Signed and dated
- datable to c.1794
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, pencil on laid paper with three fold marks (220 x 339)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche and 1794 below
Notes
In 1792, Soane surveyed the existing Elizabethan manor house at Tyringham and made designs for alterations. But in June 1793, the decision was made to build a new house and 'fair' drawings were with the client by the end of the year. The house was occupied in 1797and the stables completed in 1800 after demolition of the old house.
In the rough drawing catalogued above, the plan is quite close to the executed one and includes, for example, the idea of a 'tribune'. The elevation has the essentials of, for example, the bowed, porticoed entrance and the segmental bow on the garden side. It is interesting to see Soane getting close to his final overall design. For drawings for Tyringham see (this) volume 42/45, 42/147, 42/164, and SM 3/5/1-46 and Concise Catalogue for further drawings
In the rough drawing catalogued above, the plan is quite close to the executed one and includes, for example, the idea of a 'tribune'. The elevation has the essentials of, for example, the bowed, porticoed entrance and the segmental bow on the garden side. It is interesting to see Soane getting close to his final overall design. For drawings for Tyringham see (this) volume 42/45, 42/147, 42/164, and SM 3/5/1-46 and Concise Catalogue for further drawings
Literature
N.Pevsner & E.Williamson, Buckinghamshire, 1994, pp. 703-6; D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.169-74; G. Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, pp.106-110; M.Richardson and M.Stevens, John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, pp.128-39
Level
Drawing
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