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Reference number

SM volume 41/64 recto

Purpose

[50] Record copy of designs for details of cornices, architraves and other mouldings

Aspect

Admirals Room / The same Cornice as / in the Chamber Story / with this Frame on / the Cieling, Cornice to the Small / Rooms in West Front / Hall floor / Mezzanine & / Chamber Story, Architrave to doors & Windows to the / Admirals Room - Chamber in N.W. / Corner & the two dressing Rooms between, Architrave to doors & Windows / of the Mezzanine & Chamber / Storys, Base & Surbase Moldings to the same / Rooms as the above Architrave and Base Moldings - Mezzanine Story

Scale

1/3 Size

Inscribed

as above and [Tendring] Hall

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture ' SM volume 41

Hand

John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

The rope-like, beaded spiral moulding to the 'frame on the ceiling' in the 'Admirals Room' has a faintly nautical suggesiton about it.

SM volume 41/61 verso, SM volume 41/62 recto, SM volume 41/62 verso, SM volume 41/63 recto, SM volume 41/63 verso and SM volume 41/64 recto are all record copies of designs for which the original drawings have mosty not survived.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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