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  • image Image 1 for SM (1) 3/1/16 (2) 3/1/17
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Reference number

SM (1) 3/1/16 (2) 3/1/17

Purpose

Design for a house and offices, May 1804 (2)

Aspect

1 Plan of the House & Offices 2 Plan of the House

Scale

(1) bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot (2) bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

1 as above, William May Esqr, rooms labelled: Eating Room, Best Parlor, Common Parlor, Best Staircase, Comn Staircase, Store Closet, Pantry, Kitchen, Pantry, Entrance / to / Kitchen, Washouse, Privy, Wood / & / Coals, (left-hand side) Stable, Chaise house, Saddle / & / Harness and room dimensions given 2 as above, William May Esqr, rooms labelled as drawing 1 and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1-2 Lincolns Inn Fields May 7th 1804

Medium and dimensions

(1) Pen, black and sepia washes within quadruple-ruled pen and wash border, pricked for transfer, on laid paper (731 x 522) (2) pen and red wash within qualdruple-ruled pen and wash border, pricked for transfer on laid paper (731 x 522)

Hand

Soane office hand (no entry in Day Book)

Watermark

1-2 1801 J Whatman

Notes

The house plan of drawing 2 corresponds with that of drawing 1 and both show only the ground floor. The design is a straightforward one with a three-bay front and an entrance with porch to one side. The offices include a chaise house and stables for two horses, and a generous provision of three outside privies that together with the 'common' and 'best' parlours and staircases suggests an unpretentious household.

Level

Drawing

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

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