[1] Working drawing for eating room chimney-piece, October 1787

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  - Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Somerset: (executed) portico and entrance front, chimney-pieces and interior mouldings, alterations to the kitchen and barn, large north addition, drawing room addition, library, kitchen, granary and pigeon house for Admiral Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1787-1790, 1801-1807 (39)
    - Working drawing for eating room chimney-piece, October 1787 (1)

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Reference number

SM 81/1/30

Purpose

[1] Working drawing for eating room chimney-piece, October 1787

Aspect

Elevation of Chimney Piece, detail of mouldings and section

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot and full size

Inscribed

as above, Admiral Hood, Chimney Piece to Eating Room, (pencil) Copied, A. Composition, Marble (three times), lettered A to E, composition of oack (sic) leaves and acorns, composition, composition, Profile of pannell / of Tablet C / full size, B, B. Composition, composition, (pencil) This chimn^y piece Mr Dillingday / Eating Room / D-- caps & architrave like J Mowley / wall omitting the console / base this base like Mr Lewis, Wall line, line of pannel of pilaster, composition, composition, marble, front of marble, composition, E, marble, front of marble, composition, (pencil) K No 20, line of tablet, projection of water leaf, line of frieze, composition, composition, composition, (pencil) P80 with dimensions and calculations; (verso) Adm^l Hood / Chimney Piece for Eating / Room

Signed and dated

3 October 1787
Welbeck Street Oct^r3^d1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey and pink washes, pencil, on laid paper with three fold marks (664 x 539)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Literature

P. Lewis and G. Darley, Dictionary of ornament, 1986, p. 217.

Level

Drawing

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