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[1] Working drawing of design for gate and lodges, 1781
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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 62/8/32
Purpose
[1] Working drawing of design for gate and lodges, 1781
Aspect
Plan of ground floor, Plan of the Bedchamber, Elevation next the Road, Elevation next the Park, Elevation on the line A, Section of the External Walls of the Octangular Rooms with (pencil) revised details including lamp holders and cornice
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, Philip Yorke Esqre (recto & verso), A B C D E, B Prepare for Copper flue / C this door lintel'd at 6'..6" from the floor, (bottom centre, illegible) ... Stone 8ft 2ins and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1781
datable to 1781
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen on laid paper with four fold marks, stained, repaired c. 1999 (486 x 571)
Hand
Possibly MALTON, Thomas, the younger (1748--1804), draughtsman
Except for the sketch details of lamp holders on drawing 1, the drawings are not by Soane. Both drawings are in the same hand. See Notes below on Thomas Malton (1752-1804)
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Except for the sketch details of lamp holders on drawing 1, the drawings are not by Soane. Both drawings are in the same hand. See Notes below on Thomas Malton (1752-1804)
Except for the sketch details of lamp holders on drawing 1, the drawings are not by Soane. Both drawings are in the same hand. See Notes below on Thomas Malton (1752-1804)
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Except for the sketch details of lamp holders on drawing 1, the drawings are not by Soane. Both drawings are in the same hand. See Notes below on Thomas Malton (1752-1804)
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.251-2,255-6,258,264,379 fn.24 (references to SM MSS); D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, p.119; M.Richardson and M.Stevens (eds) , John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, catalogue 38; P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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