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[14] Working drawing for exterior details
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Reference number
SM volume 41/59 recto
Purpose
[14] Working drawing for exterior details
Aspect
Details of the Entablature for / the Portico and of Cornice & Blocking / Course for the Wings
Scale
¼ the size and ½ size
Inscribed
as above, Malvern Hall, Great care to be taken / to preserve the outlines of / the Moldings, If in one Stone in height, so much the better, Fascia, One face only, Stucco, Brick and some dimensions given
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil tracelines on laid paper (242 x 360) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41
Hand
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)
Watermark
fleur-de-lis
Notes
Here, the frieze is shown unadorned. In SM 5/3/13 it has lean festoons and medallions, in SM volume 41/32 verso, strigils and medallions but in execution it was given the festoons and bucrania of Soane's most loved Roman building, the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli.
A blocking course is the crowning course of masonry above a cornice. Mention is made in the 'Description [specification] and Estimate' (q.v. No.2) of taking down the existing cornices and setting 'a new Stone Cornice and Blocking Course'.
A blocking course is the crowning course of masonry above a cornice. Mention is made in the 'Description [specification] and Estimate' (q.v. No.2) of taking down the existing cornices and setting 'a new Stone Cornice and Blocking Course'.
Level
Drawing
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