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[2] Design for window sashes in the hothouse, datable to August 1792
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Reference number
SM 8/3/24
Purpose
[2] Design for window sashes in the hothouse, datable to August 1792
Aspect
Section of the Sashes & Timbers to the Hothouse; rough elevation and plan of a hothouse with a loggia; rough plan of a hothouse with a semicircular-plan lobby
Scale
2 Inches to a Foot
Inscribed
as above, The Earl of Hardwicke, Wimple, Copping / Upper Sash / Middle Sash / lower Sash, (pencil) Shed (four times), Green, Hothouse, dimensions given
Signed and dated
- August 1792
Great Scotland Yard 1792
Datable to August 1792 in accord with drawing 1 and Daybook entry
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and pink wash on laid paper (489 x 385)
Hand
Attributed to Thomas Chawner (1774 - 1851), draughtsman
attributed to Thomas Chawner (pupil 1788-94)
attributed to Thomas Chawner (pupil 1788-94)
Watermark
B and fleur-de-lis
Notes
Drawing 2 is a detail for the hothouse's glass walls and lean-to roof. The continuous glazing has three layers in order to successfully retain heat within the building. As shown in section on drawings 1 and 3, the taller back wall of the greenhouse had no glazing and was made of brick.
The margins of the sheet have alternative designs for larger garden buildings. One has a two-storey building fronted by a colonnaded loggia and between hothouses.
The office Daybook of 1792 records that Thomas Chawner and Frederick Meyer were 'drawing sections of Hot house at Wimp[o]le' on 15 August. Soane delivered to Lord Hardwicke a design for the hothouse the next day, together with drawings of 'parts at large', probably drawing 2. Soane notes in the book that the drawings were returned.
The margins of the sheet have alternative designs for larger garden buildings. One has a two-storey building fronted by a colonnaded loggia and between hothouses.
The office Daybook of 1792 records that Thomas Chawner and Frederick Meyer were 'drawing sections of Hot house at Wimp[o]le' on 15 August. Soane delivered to Lord Hardwicke a design for the hothouse the next day, together with drawings of 'parts at large', probably drawing 2. Soane notes in the book that the drawings were returned.
Level
Drawing
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