[2] Survey of house and outbuildings

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  - Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)
    - Survey and design for outbuildings (2)

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Reference number

SM 29/5C/3

Purpose

[2] Survey of house and outbuildings

Aspect

Ground plan of the house and of existing outbuildings

Scale

bar scale of 4/11 inch to 100 feet

Inscribed

(upper case) The New Marlow Road, Old Marlow Road, lettered A to P corresponding with Reference // A The House // B Kitchen &c // C Stables // D Cart houses // E Straw Yard // F Woodhouse // G Old Barn // H Old Stable // I Necessarys // K Hog Stye // L Old Shed // M Henhouse // N Sheds // O Grainery // P Coachouses // NB that which is Shaded Green / Belongs to Farmer King; Wycombe House, plans of Wycombe house (this list within a scroll)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and feint red and green washes within double-ruled border on laid paper (437 x 630)

Hand

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and then assistant 1794-1808)

Watermark

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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