[2] Preliminary design for a house

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Castle Forbes, County Longford, Ireland: (unbuilt) dower house for the Dowager Countess of Granard, 1790 (4)
    - Preliminary designs for Castle Forbes (2)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/157

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a house

Aspect

Ground floor plan; plan of vestibule at a; and rough alternative plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/15 in to 1 ft, approximately

Inscribed

as above, Rt Hon^bleLady Granard, rooms labelled: Writ^g/ Closet / &c, Library & Breakfas[t], Eat^g Room, Kitchen and omit (secondary portico), dimensions given and (feint pencil) calculations

Signed and dated

Monday Ap.5:1790

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, sepia wash, pencil on laid paper (184 x 312)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

GR (sheet trimmed)

Literature

P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985 in series of 'Cataloges of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. 65, 66

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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