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[7] Design for interior finishings to the dairy, 16 October 1789
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Reference number
SM 65/1/24
Purpose
[7] Design for interior finishings to the dairy, 16 October 1789
Aspect
Plan and laid-out wall elevations; rough (pencil) details of mouldings
Scale
bar scale of 2/11 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
The Honble Lewis Thomas Watson, section of dairy and drawing labelled (Soane): the four cows & four churns are / to be of plaister / the walls are to be stuccoed & the / whole finished in a plain & / useful manner, AA. The casements in each of these windows / to open inwards / wirework on the outside / the upper pannels of the / doors are to have flywire only / & the circular heads are to be / glazed, except that over the door / into the cheese chamber which / is to have flywire only, B. all these parts are to be finished / with composition that will resist / the damps & the top edge is to / be beaded // The floor under the dressers is r--sed with / one course of bricks & paved with / ten inch tiles as is also the floor // The dressers & legs &c are to be of deal / to receive the Milk either in Wedgewood [sic] / ware or in leaded troughs, (pencil) step up / this door
Signed and dated
- 16 October 1789
Welbeck Street Octr 16th 1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey, pink and verdigris washes, pencil, within single-ruled border on laid paper with five fold marks with traces of red wax (478 x 395)
Hand
Soane office and Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane office and Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane office and Soane
Literature
J. M. Robinson, Georgian Model Farms: a study of decorative and model farm buildings in the Age of Improvement, 1700-1846, 1983, pp. 92-100.
Level
Drawing
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