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Reference number

SM 81/1/47

Purpose

[14] Working drawing, 4 March 1808

Aspect

Elevation, plan and full size detail for a chimney piece

Scale

bar scale and Mouldings full size

Inscribed

AAA & Black Marble / all the other veined marble_, Veined, Black (five times), two chimneys to these dimentions, A, A, A and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • Bank March 4 1808

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing and SM 81/1/44 are evidently an original and a copy of the same working drawing. Both drawings show a simple frame with a four-petalled flower hastily sketched in pencil above the jambs. Though the mouldings shown are labelled 'full size', this drawing is much larger than SM 81/1/44. It is possible that SM 81/1/44 was a free-hand copy of this drawing but it seems more likely that the inscription on SM 81/1/44 was an instruction to a pupil, to draw up the mouldings to full size.

Level

Drawing

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