(36) to a scale (37-40) bar scale of 2/13 inch to 1 foot (41) bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot (42) to a scale

36 (upper case) Cellar (six times), Area (twice), Butler's Room, Passage, Housekeeper's Room, Store Room, Sub Hall, Cold Bath, Warm / Bath, Passage / to / the offices, The Servants Hall, The Washouse, Area, The Landry (sic), The Kitchen, Court and dimensions given 37 (upper case) as above, The Marquiss of Buckingham, Area (twice), Butler's Room, Passage, Housekeeper's Room, Store Room, Sub Hall, Cold Bath, Warm / Bath, Passage to / Offices, Servants Hall, dimensions given, (pencil) 1790 38 (upper case) as above, The Marquiss of Buckingham, The Area (twice), The Portico, The Hall, Porter's / Bed, Lord Temple's Room, The Drawing Room, Dressing / Room, Wardrobe, Lobby, Lobby, Water / Closet, Evidence / Room, Lobby, The Library, Lord's / Dressing Room, The Eating Room, Butler's Closet, and dimensions given 39 (upper case) as above, The Marquiss of Buckingham, Balcony, Anti-room, Drawing Room Drawing Room, Corridor, Lord and Lady's / Chamber, Lady's Dressing / Room, Drawing Room, Sink and dimensions given 40 (upper case) as above, The Marquiss of Buckingham, Passage (twice), Nursery Apartment (twice), Chamber (six times), Dressing Room, Sink, and dimensions given 42 (pencil) Buckingham House Pallmall / Section through staircase 1794

(36-40) Pencil, pen and black, grey and blue washes, within quadruple-ruled pink and black wash border on wove paper (495 x 702, 495 x 702, 495 x 702, 495 x 702, 495 x 702) (41) pencil, pen and wash on laid paper (495 x 702) (42) pencil, pen and pink, grey and sepia washes, within quadruple-ruled black wash border on wove paper (495 x 702)

Soane office

(41) J Whatman 1793 and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with ornate W below

The basement has a cold plunge pool, with a smaller warm bath besde it. Soane designed a similar bath for Bentley Priory in 1789, and one for Wimpole in 1790 (q.v.).

A list of projects is on the verso of drawing 38, probably referring to projects underway at the time of this drawing: 'Mr Scott: Plans, Mr Praed's Plans, Villa (?) Stables, Sections of Cambridge'. The list may be referring to the following projects: Tyringham House for Mr Praed, 1792 to 97; Dunninald House for David Scott, 1787-1795; and Caius College, Cambridge, 1792. This list therefore dates the drawing to after 1792. Soane exhibited drawings of Dunninald House and Tyringham at the Royal Academy in 1798 (RA catalogue numbers 1006 and 960, respectively).

The front elevation (drawing 41) is the same as earlier designs (drawing 31), buth with a variant iron gate design. The coat of arms, in the centre of the parapet, is left unfinished in drawing 41.

The pencil labelling appears to be added later and to the entire volume, with dates that are only approximate.

The staircase is shown in section on drawing 42, with the railing omitted. The vestibule is three storeys high, with medallions decorating a frieze between the first and attic storeys.

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has five drawings for the staircase at Buckingham House, including a plan of the staircase and four sections. Two drawings of the front Doric portico are also at the V&A, as is a front elevation. The elevation of the portico shows lions' head waterspouts above the triglyphs (see du Prey catalogue).

P. du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 213-22; P. Inskip, 'Soane and the Grenvilles', Apollo Magazine, April 2004, p. 20.

Drawing

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