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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 45/1/18
Purpose
Preliminary design
Aspect
Plan with revisions and rough alternative plan
Scale
bar scale of 1/11 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Labelled (pencil) Cold, Hall, Dressg / Ro and (by G.Bailey, curator 1837-60) Plan of a Design for a Bath
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer, within single ruled border on laid paper (521 x 350)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
Overall, the plan is triangular with three concave sides (each fronted by a distyle portico in antis) terminating in three rectangular pavilions. Internally, the centre is a circle with three apsidal ends linked to pavilions that house a hall, a cold bath and a hot bath. Pencil amendments make the concave sides straight while the rough alternative plan has three triangular pavilions and straight sides.
Soane used a simpler triangular plan for his design for a dog house see (under Soane's early works) Downhill: County Derry, Northern Ireland: unexecuted alternative designs for a doghouse for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, 1778-9 and later.
Another triangular plan was employed for a prospect tower at Tortworth, Gloucestershire c. 1796, see P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985 in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum) catalogue 118.
Jill Lever, September 2005
Soane used a simpler triangular plan for his design for a dog house see (under Soane's early works) Downhill: County Derry, Northern Ireland: unexecuted alternative designs for a doghouse for Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol, 1778-9 and later.
Another triangular plan was employed for a prospect tower at Tortworth, Gloucestershire c. 1796, see P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985 in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum) catalogue 118.
Jill Lever, September 2005
Level
Drawing
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