[5] Design with part-specification, July 1785

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Reference number

SM 28/4/5

Purpose

[5] Design with part-specification, July 1785

Aspect

Section from West to East and Part of the Section from North to / South

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled Entrance and This door to be in / the middle between / A and B, Staircase, The Withdrawing Room, The second Chamber with Lobby, The best Chamber with Lobby and Light Closet, The Attic room coved / to the Roof, Garret (Soane) In the execution the / Cieling must be / lathed to the Rafters & Collar and In the execution this ceiling must be flat and Ground Line, Level of the Ground as it now is and dimensions given

Signed and dated

datable to July 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pale tones of green, blue-green and yellow for walls, light pink for section, blue and grey for window glass, grey shading, within single ruled (wide) border on laid paper (roughly 590 x 470) with traces of red sealing wax on four corners of verso

Hand

Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-1804)/Soane

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W

Level

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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