Scale
to a scale see note below
Inscribed
(Sanders) Design for the Offices at Tendring Hall and dimensions given, (verso), (Baldwin) Tendring Hall / Plan of the Offices and (builder's hand) Sir I have this moment Rcd your Draft for £30 if you (cut)
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
brown pen, hatching on cartridge paper with two folds (523 x 307)
Hand
builder, William Lodder?
Notes
The purpose of the drawing is not clear. It is drawn with a firm hand but not by an architect. The plan is close to that of SM 28/2/16 including, for example, the addition of a pencilled-in stair. The inscribed dimensions are the same as those of SM 28/2/18 but the fractions of an inch are not given. The elevations are simpler than in SM 28/2/18 and a lantern or ventilator is drawn in unorthodox 'filleted' way that suggests a builder (probably a carpenter) as draughtsman, possibly the William Lodder inscribed on the verso of 28/2/16. Little is known about this builder except that two natural curiosities cut from an Ash tree displayed either side of the north window to Soane's Library-Dining room at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields were presented to Soane in 1820 by a William Lodder. For another drawing inscrbed 'Lodder' see SM 8/3/11.
Level
Drawing
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