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  - Malvern Hall, Warwickshire: (executed) alterations and addition of wings and porch for Henry Greswold Lewis, 1783-1786 (15)

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Reference number

SM 5/3/13

Purpose

[1] Design

Aspect

North Elevation of Malvern Hall showing the new (east and west) wings and porch

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above and (George Bailey curator 1837-60) The Seat of Henry Griswold Lewis Esq^re

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, shading on laid paper with four fold marks, red sealing wax on verso (395 x 528)

Hand

John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)

Watermark

Taylor, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, GR

Notes

Drawn out or copied by John Sanders, Soane's pupil from 1 September 1784, the elevation of the entrance front shows the existing three-storey (over a basement), seven-bay facade with the Ionic porch (with swagged frieze but no bucrania) on a segmental plan and the two-storey, five-bay wings.

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Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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