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Reference number

SM 31/4/28

Purpose

[206] Preliminary working drawing and design for the interior, 3 and 5 February 1801

Aspect

Plan of Library and Breakfast Room and elevation/section of north wall through both rooms with revisions and rough detail by Soane (verso) details of a bookcase

Scale

bar scale of 9/16 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

labelled door, finishings, door into Room, door of B, Q[uer]y of any/ door (five times) / opposite, Portfolio, mahog[an]y door, This recess to / correspond with the window, The Portfolio, finish, Drawer (twice), Marble Top (four times), Knuckle of Hinge, door of Book, depth of Recess for door into stair, Drawer under Book (three times), Mahog[an]y. door/ 4.1½ / Lay flush next draw[e]r. Room / onto fold ban, finishings, Bookcase, Hinge, maps and some dimensions given (verso) Line of marble, door (twice), Stile of Bookcase door, 2 Inch, The Groove (twice) and Take this

Signed and dated

  • 3 February 1801 - 5 February 1801
    LIF Feby 3 1801 (verso) Feb. 5. 1801

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pale red, Naples yellow, terre verte, cerulean blue and sepia washes, partly pricked for transfer, on wove paper (580 x 699)

Hand

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) (Day Book 3 February 1801)

Watermark

WL 1794

Level

Drawing

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

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