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[4] Design for alterations and additions to the offices for William Windham Esqr, December 1785
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Reference number
SM 4/3/1
Purpose
[4] Design for alterations and additions to the offices for William Windham Esqr, December 1785
Aspect
Plan for the Alterations of the offices of Earsham
Scale
bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, existing rooms (outlined in black wash) labelled: Common Parlor, Housekeeper, Butlers pantry, Court, Court Yard, Passage to the Kitchen; new rooms (largely outlined in pink wash) labelled Servants Hall, Kitchen, Cooks Closet / and / Pantry, Meal Room, Bakehouse, Scullery, dressing Wigs / Cleaning Knives / Shoes &c, Water / Closet (twice), Drying Ground, Larder, Brewhouse, Tree and dimensions given
Verso: addressed to Willm Windham Esqr / Earsham / Bungay / Suffolk (sic), One Piece of Paper, (?) 10p, rubber stamped -- (illegible) 1A and note Mr Gubbin /Carp[ente]r / Thames St[reet]
Letter: Sir, / I delayed sending this plan until I had settled with / De Bruyn (who carried out chiaroscuro paintings, since gone) which after some difficulty I have this moment / done, his charges of £25:4s & £3.5.8 are in my opinion / extremely unreasonable & such as he was not intitled to / I therefore paid him £20- & took his receipt in full of / all & every demand on you, which I hope will meet your / approbation - // I have reduced this plan so as not to exceed the / weight allowed for a common Letter, & whatever else occurs / shall be sent by the Coach - // I hope you will never find me wanting in attention, but / studious to have the good opinion of my Employers / I am Sir / Your obliged & obed[ien]t Serv[an]t // J Soane / Margaret Street / Jan: 3 : 1785
Signed and dated
- December 1785
J Soane (letter on verso), (drawing) Decr 1785 (letter on verso) Jan: 3 : 1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black, pink and sepia washes, pencil within double ruled and black wash border , red sealing wax on laid paper with three fold marks (407 x 295)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane
Soane
Watermark
fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W
Literature
P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.170; N.Pevsner and B.Wilson, Norfolk 2: north-west and south, 2nd ed., 1999, pp.315-16
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 14 September 2013 - 24 February 2014
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk