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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 42/153 recto and verso
Purpose
Preliminary design
Aspect
Part Plan, part elevations, Section on BC and details
See Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire: drawing 22, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/153
See Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire: drawing 22, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/153
Scale
to various scales including Half size
Inscribed
as above, Arch (twice), Niche, arched as / plan dotted / lines, Stone (three times), Wood, Three courses of brickwork, labelled A, B C (twice), D (twice), E and dimensions given. Noted Tuesday 5 o'Clock / Mr Mitford / Mrs Yorkes Stables, calculations and (verso, pencil) plan and calculations
Signed and dated
- datable to 1794
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, pencil on laid paper with one fold mark and folded to fit (394 x 323)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval, and crowned GR
Notes
Soane's screen with its arched entrance and flanking lodges was completed in 1796 but by 1804 cracks had developed in the central arch and it was eventually demolished and replaced by another screen designed by H.E.Kendall. See D.Adshead, op. cit, for an account.
For further drawings at the Soane Museum see SM volume 68/13-17 (variant designs dated 24 January 1794) and SM 62/8/45-6 (copies of surveys dated 28 April 1818). The drawing catalogued above was probably made in 1794 after 24 January. It is close to the survey drawings of 1818 but without, for example, the columns in antis.
'Mr Mitford' was William Mitford of Pitshill near Tillington, Sussex for whom, in March 1794, Soane provided several designs for alterations. A misunderstanding involving the builder led Soane to claim that he had destroyed the drawings. In fact, there are in the Soane Museum, floor plans dated 5 March 1794 (SM 46/3/8-9) and designs for the principal front (SM volume 68/1-4).
For the Hon. Mrs Yorke, Soane did several jobs including Sydney Lodge, Hamble, Hampshire, 1789-1798.
For further drawings at the Soane Museum see SM volume 68/13-17 (variant designs dated 24 January 1794) and SM 62/8/45-6 (copies of surveys dated 28 April 1818). The drawing catalogued above was probably made in 1794 after 24 January. It is close to the survey drawings of 1818 but without, for example, the columns in antis.
'Mr Mitford' was William Mitford of Pitshill near Tillington, Sussex for whom, in March 1794, Soane provided several designs for alterations. A misunderstanding involving the builder led Soane to claim that he had destroyed the drawings. In fact, there are in the Soane Museum, floor plans dated 5 March 1794 (SM 46/3/8-9) and designs for the principal front (SM volume 68/1-4).
For the Hon. Mrs Yorke, Soane did several jobs including Sydney Lodge, Hamble, Hampshire, 1789-1798.
Literature
P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', 1975, cat.140-1; D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 2nd ed., 1996, p.257; pp.140-1; 147-9; D.Adshead, Wimpole, architectural drawings ..., 2007, pp.97-99
Level
Drawing
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