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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 45/1/15
Purpose
Copy of a design on a plan measuring 90 x 65 feet
Aspect
Plan of the Bedchamber Story and plan of the Hall, or Principal Story (inscribed in another hand?)
Scale
bar scale in English feet of 1/13 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above, Front extends 90 feet / Flank ...... 65 feet, The Cornice to this Part as at Balbec, rooms labelled: (ground floor) Breakfasting / Parlor, Library, Vestibule, Eating Parlor, Drawing Room, Saloon / or / Music Room, (first floor) Upper part of Saloon, Corridor lighted by a Skylight, 5 bedrooms, 2 water closets and 2 dressing rooms are indicated, North, South, East and West and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- Rome, Novr 11th 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and sepia wash, partly pricked for transfer within double ruled border on laid paper with old patch (708 x 509)
Hand
Soane, some inscriptions by another hand ?
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below and J Whatman
Notes
This drawing appears to be a copy of drawing made in Rome on 11 November 1779. It is partly pricked through for transfer and has a rather mechanical look to it. The room labels appear to be by Soane, the larger inscriptions possibly by another hand.
Elevations, if made, have not survived. The plan is an enlarged re-working of Soane's published design for a 'Hunting Casine' (Designs in architecture, 1778, plate xxiv) with its circular, domed principal room that here is fronted by four columns set on the curve, and with the cornice 'as at Balbec'. Details, no doubt, taken from R.Wood and J.Dawkins, The Ruins of Balbec, 1757, of which Soane owned two copies (date of acquisition not known).
See also: Alternative designs for a (hunting) casino, c. 1780.
Jill Lever, September 2005
Elevations, if made, have not survived. The plan is an enlarged re-working of Soane's published design for a 'Hunting Casine' (Designs in architecture, 1778, plate xxiv) with its circular, domed principal room that here is fronted by four columns set on the curve, and with the cornice 'as at Balbec'. Details, no doubt, taken from R.Wood and J.Dawkins, The Ruins of Balbec, 1757, of which Soane owned two copies (date of acquisition not known).
See also: Alternative designs for a (hunting) casino, c. 1780.
Jill Lever, September 2005
Literature
P. du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.267-8
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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