[8] Preliminary working drawing for a chimney-piece in the Tapestry Room, 5 June 1787

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire: (unexecuted) picture gallery, (executed) chimney-pieces and a state bed for William Beckford, 1787-1788 (14)
    - Preliminary working drawing, working drawing and two copies for a chimney-piece in the Tapestry room, June 1787 (4)

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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

Watermark

fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W

Level

Drawing

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