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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM volume 42/147 recto and verso
Purpose
Preliminary working drawings
Aspect
Sections through hall, details of mouldings and (verso) full size mouldings
See Tyringham House, drawing 105, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/147
See Tyringham House, drawing 105, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/147
Scale
various scales and full size
Inscribed
as above, (recto) Capital to Pilasters full size, looking toward / Hall door, B full size, Bell Glass, A, B, C, D, E, F, full (twice), Plinth; (verso) Full size (twice), 9 inches / Plain / Pan. / Sunk ¼ Inch, Arch, 11 In and C
Signed and dated
- Aug: 3 1796
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, pencil (verso) brown pen and warm sepia wash, pencil on laid paper with two fold marks and folded to fit (325 x 342)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch and 1795 within a crowned oval frame, and F Hayes 1795
Notes
The purpose of the drawing catalogued here was presumably to show the office draughtsmen what was needed in the way of full size drawings.
See also (this) volume 42/45, 42/133, 42/164, and SM 3/5/1-46 and see Concise Catalogue for further drawings
See also (this) volume 42/45, 42/133, 42/164, and SM 3/5/1-46 and see Concise Catalogue for further drawings
Literature
N.Pevsner & E.Williamson, Buckinghamshire, 1994, pp. 703-6; D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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