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[1] Record drawing of designs for a greenhouse and garden wall
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Reference number
SM volume 41/68 verso
Purpose
[1] Record drawing of designs for a greenhouse and garden wall
Aspect
Elevation and plan of the greenhouse; elevation and plan of garden entrance
Inscribed
Genl Murray, Garden Wall, Design for Entrance to Garden at Beauport Sussex, Brickwork (four times), stone, open, stone, 10 feet (twice), 15 feet, 30 feet, 15 feet, Leave this opening like / one of the in front & perhaps / bricked up afterwards, Garden Wall, Design for the greenhouse at Beauport Sussex, brickwork (five times), stone (three times), 15 feet, 5 feet, 10 feet, and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1900
Initial sketch - 1901
Annotations - 1902
Basis for print
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey and pink washes, on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture' SM volume 41
Hand
John McDonnell (1770 -, pupil, 18 March 1786-91)
Notes
The greenhouse is attached to the garden wall and measures 30 by 15 feet. The front elevation has three round arches springing from brick piers. The brick pediment has stone accents on the raking cornice, springing and base. Both side elevations have a single arch. A note on the drawing suggests that one of the arches, presumably that facing north, is left open '& perhaps bricked up afterwards'.
Soane supplied General Murray with designs for a greenhouse in 1786, charging £15 15s 0d. In 1787, he surveyed the house and made drawings for alterations and in 1790 he made designs for an obelisk, charging £16 16s 0d for these works. Soane did not supervise any building works and it is unknown whether the designs were executed.
Soane supplied General Murray with designs for a greenhouse in 1786, charging £15 15s 0d. In 1787, he surveyed the house and made drawings for alterations and in 1790 he made designs for an obelisk, charging £16 16s 0d for these works. Soane did not supervise any building works and it is unknown whether the designs were executed.
Literature
D. Stroud, Sir John Soane Architect, 2nd ed., 1996, p. 245; P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p. 176.
Level
Drawing
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