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  • image SM 31/3/9

Reference number

SM 31/3/9

Purpose

[97] Working drawing for Pitzhanger Manor, 24 December 1800

Aspect

Plan of the Ground Floor and wall plan for part of the Dance wing

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot (100) bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled Drawing Room, Library, Breakfast Room, area (twice), Vestibule, dressing Room (twice), washing, door, Lobby, Iron Safe, Eating Room, x The openings marked thus not to be altered as Payne / has got the dimensions for the Centering, aax the Bookcases in this Room to be only pedestal high, A.A. Semicircular lights over each of these apertures and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 24 December 1800
    (97) Decr: 24th: 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown pen, sepia, yellow and pale red washes, partly pricked for transfer, on wove paper (525 x 680)

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 13 January 1801)
Possibly Thomas Sword, draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant 1794-1808) or Thomas Sword (pupil 1799-1804) (Day Book 13 January 1801)

Literature

P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.93

Level

Drawing

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