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[8] Preliminary working drawing for a chimney-piece in the Tapestry Room, 5 June 1787
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Reference number
SM 81/2/88
Purpose
[8] Preliminary working drawing for a chimney-piece in the Tapestry Room, 5 June 1787
Aspect
Plan and incomplete elevation lacking details of ornament
Scale
bar scale of 1/12 inch to one inch
Inscribed
(pencil) The Roses in the Pilasters & frieze / A to be Varied / AA These Plinths are not to be / Worked until directed / CC The Centers of the different / ornaments are to be perpendiculaly (sic) / one over the other, A A, C C, (tablet) Some Historical Subject / to be fixed on, Projection of Cornice, Wall line and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 5 June 1787
Welbeck Street June 5 1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (297 x 483)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane
Soane
Watermark
fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W
Level
Drawing
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