[1] Alternative designs for a stair balustrade, 21 January 1790

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Lees Court, Kent: (executed) stables, dairy, office court, and alterations to the staircase for Lewis Thomas Watson, 1788-90 (33)
    - Alternative designs for a stair balustrade and working drawing for door beside the stair, 1788 and 1790 (2)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/9

Purpose

[1] Alternative designs for a stair balustrade, 21 January 1790

Aspect

Three elevations of an iron balustrade or railing, including variant motifs: lozenge with inset gilded rosetted disc; triple loop; and leafy double scroll; (verso) part of a compass-drawn scroll with (pencil) setting-out lines

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 in to 1 ft (approximately)

Inscribed

The Hon^bleLewis Tho^s Watson, Design for Iron Railing to Best Staircase at Lees Court, (Soane) For M^rFellowes Esq (Esq cancelled), (client or another office hand) this is the / one approved of

Signed and dated

21 January 1790
Welbeck Street Jan: 21 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow wash on laid paper (286 x 223)

Hand

Soane office and Soane (Day Book missing)
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane office and Soane (Day Book missing)

Watermark

(part) fleur-de-lis

Level

Drawing

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