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[7] Presentation drawing dated 6 June 1789
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Reference number
SM 73/3/8
Purpose
[7] Presentation drawing dated 6 June 1789
Aspect
The Entrance Front No 2, The Longitudinal Elevation and Elevation of the Entrance Front of the County Gaol
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
as above (in sans serif capitals, on Roman label ( tabula ansata) and No: 4 and (over the alternative entrances) NORWICH CASTLE and THE / COVNTY / GAOL
Signed and dated
- Welbeck Street June 6th 1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia washes, shaded, pricked for transfer, with narrow black-edged border (894 x 596)
Hand
Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1788-94)
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
The elevations are in a Castle style with slit windows, stepped flat-faced buttresses, and battlements. The elevations are for a new entrance to the castle: three storeys with a tall lancet arched doorway flanked by lancet niches and for the entrance to the gaol: four storeys with a semi-circular headed door.
Soane's office 'Journal No1' has an entry for the 26 May 1789: 'sent Mr Fellowes a plan for alterations'. Between 1785 and 1790 Soane built Shotesham Hall in Norfolk (q.v.) for Robert Fellowes, a magistrate and local politician. See introduction to this catalogue for a note of Soane's drawings for Norwich Castle Gaol in Norwich Castle Museum, 1789-91, two of them inscribed 'Robert Fellowes'.
The office 'Journal' also records that Soane's drawings were 'approved & ordered into execution on 17 June 1789'.
Not all of of Soane's presentation drawings have survived; the office Journal No 1 has an entry for 6 June 1789 'Took with me / No 5 fair Drawings of a Design / for the improvements / Three Plans / One elevation of front / one doof flank / One Section on 5 Sheets of double Eleph[ant]'. Double elephant size paper is generally understood as 40½ inches x 26 and 7/8 inches (1003 x 685 mm) which does not correspond with the dimensions given above.
Soane's office 'Journal No1' has an entry for the 26 May 1789: 'sent Mr Fellowes a plan for alterations'. Between 1785 and 1790 Soane built Shotesham Hall in Norfolk (q.v.) for Robert Fellowes, a magistrate and local politician. See introduction to this catalogue for a note of Soane's drawings for Norwich Castle Gaol in Norwich Castle Museum, 1789-91, two of them inscribed 'Robert Fellowes'.
The office 'Journal' also records that Soane's drawings were 'approved & ordered into execution on 17 June 1789'.
Not all of of Soane's presentation drawings have survived; the office Journal No 1 has an entry for 6 June 1789 'Took with me / No 5 fair Drawings of a Design / for the improvements / Three Plans / One elevation of front / one doof flank / One Section on 5 Sheets of double Eleph[ant]'. Double elephant size paper is generally understood as 40½ inches x 26 and 7/8 inches (1003 x 685 mm) which does not correspond with the dimensions given above.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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