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[179] Preliminary record drawing, c.1815
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Reference number
SM volume 76/73
Purpose
[179] Preliminary record drawing, c.1815
Aspect
Chelsea Hospital, View of the New Bakehouse etc (verso) part of an unidentified elevation
Inscribed
as above (verso, pencil) a list of subjects, probably for lecture drawings (including the Bullock Museum - or Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London designed by P.F.Robinson, 1811-12, for William Bullock, naturalist and antiquarian, in a novel Egyptian style)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This drawing is probably a preparatory watercolour, intended to be worked up into a record drawing. It has been made on the back of another drawing (cropped for the new, smaller sketch).
Behind the Bakehouse itself, the Infirmary's eastern (south projecting) wing can be seen, as well as the east side of the north-south range. To the north (the right) of the Bakehouse, is Wren's Guardhouse, which clearly illustrates Ptolemy Dean's comparison of the two buildings: the Bakehouse ‘elevation, window pattern and cornice were an exact copy of Wren’s guard house’. Soane's building was yellow stock brick and without stone quoining, but the two structures clearly shared remarkably similar dimensions. Part of a demolished building is shown between Wren's Guardhouse and the Bakehouse. A sufficient gap had to be left between the two buildings because of the potential fire hazard.
Behind the Bakehouse itself, the Infirmary's eastern (south projecting) wing can be seen, as well as the east side of the north-south range. To the north (the right) of the Bakehouse, is Wren's Guardhouse, which clearly illustrates Ptolemy Dean's comparison of the two buildings: the Bakehouse ‘elevation, window pattern and cornice were an exact copy of Wren’s guard house’. Soane's building was yellow stock brick and without stone quoining, but the two structures clearly shared remarkably similar dimensions. Part of a demolished building is shown between Wren's Guardhouse and the Bakehouse. A sufficient gap had to be left between the two buildings because of the potential fire hazard.
Literature
P. Dean, 'The Royal Hospital Chelsea I- Pre-1815' in Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p.74
Level
Drawing
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