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[1] Working drawing for eating room chimney-piece, October 1787
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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 chimny 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) Adml Hood / Chimney Piece for Eating / Room
Signed and dated
- 3 October 1787
Welbeck Street Octr 3d 1787
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
Soane
Literature
P. Lewis and G. Darley, Dictionary of ornament, 1986, p. 217.
Level
Drawing
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