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Record copy drawing of a design, and working drawing for the library (2)
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Reference number
SM volume 57/22, 80/1/21
Purpose
Record copy drawing of a design, and working drawing for the library (2)
Aspect
47 Copy of plan and laid-out wall elevations of a square room about 16 by 17 feet, with two tall, semicircular headed windows on one side opposite the chimney-piece and the other walls shelved up and with a closet opposite the main door, both with matching pedimented doorcase and panelled doors
48 Unfinished details of doors and doorcases
48 Unfinished details of doors and doorcases
Scale
(47) bar scale of 1/8 in to 1 ft (48) 1/3 of the full Size
Inscribed
(47) as above, (Sanders) Section of Library and Bookcases / at Letton Hall and (of bookshelves) A.B. Make all these spaces of equal widths / NB The Pedestal Parts under the Bookcases / are to be prepared to receive Doors if / hereafter they should be found necessary
(48) (pencil, Sanders) B.G.Dillingham Esqre / Mouldings at large for / the doors in Library, (pencil, Soane) Profile to Bookcases, NB The Flowers / to be in plaister, Make this / Space equal / to the width / of Architrave, The same Architrave / as to the door into the / Hall, In the frieze Lyres & wreathes of / Laurel, Make this Architrave / like the Architrave to the Door into the Hall, Line of Frize, Section through the Pediment &c and Qy door in / Acct Genl Hall
(48) (pencil, Sanders) B.G.Dillingham Esqre / Mouldings at large for / the doors in Library, (pencil, Soane) Profile to Bookcases, NB The Flowers / to be in plaister, Make this / Space equal / to the width / of Architrave, The same Architrave / as to the door into the / Hall, In the frieze Lyres & wreathes of / Laurel, Make this Architrave / like the Architrave to the Door into the Hall, Line of Frize, Section through the Pediment &c and Qy door in / Acct Genl Hall
Medium and dimensions
(47) Pen, sepia washes, shaded on laid paper bound into volume 57 (284 x 430) (48) pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil on laid paper (468 x 282)
Hand
(47-48) John Sanders (pupil 1784-90), Soane inscriptions on drawing 44
Watermark
(47) Taylor (48) fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar with GR below
Notes
The library is small but the globes over the pedimented doors with the busts on top of the bookcases give it a scholarly air. It is interesting to note, as an example of how Soane delegated work to a pupil, the unfinished sheet of details (drawing 48) with the amendments pencilled-in by Soane to be revised and re-drawn by Sanders.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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