[90] Preliminary variant design for the exterior : F, 23 October 1800

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London: (executed) a house for John Soane and six unexecuted schemes for a villa at Acton, 1800-1832 (285)
    - Preliminary designs for Pitzhanger Manor, villas A to G, c. August - c. November 1800 (31)
      - Preliminary variant designs for the exterior : F, October 1800 (3)

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Reference number

SM 31/2/47

Purpose

[90] Preliminary variant design for the exterior : F, 23 October 1800

Aspect

Elevation of the entrance front set in a landscape

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

present level of G[roun]^d at Entrance Door and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

23 October 1800
Oct^r. 23^rd. 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow ochre, brown ochre, terre verte and sepia washes, watercolour technique within a triple-ruled black and white border, on wove paper (527 x 720)

Hand

Possibly Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) or Thomas Sword (pupil 1799-1804) (Day Book 23 October 1800)
Possibly Thomas Sword, draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) or Thomas Sword (pupil 1799-1804) (Day Book 23 October 1800)

Watermark

1794 J Whatman

Literature

P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p. 96

Level

Drawing

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