[168] Design for sheds near the stable block, 30 October 1800

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  - Tyringham House, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire: entrance screen, bridge, house, offices, greenhouses and stables for William Mackworth Praed, 1792-1801, record drawings 1808 (169)
    - Design for sheds near the stable block, 30 October 1800 (1)

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Reference number

SM 64/6/1

Purpose

[168] Design for sheds near the stable block, 30 October 1800

Aspect

Plan; elevation; and section

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section from A to B, 14'0, A, B, 7'6", Shed for wood &c / 3'5 by 12' // Q^y will this be better as an open shed, Lumber shed / 19 by 12, Slaughter house / 20 by 12, Fasting / Penn / 7 by 12, Wheelers Shop / 22 by 12, Smiths Shop / 16 by 12, Shoeing Place / 15 by 12, Manger, Stable; (verso) Sir // As you did not send me the Drawing for the sheds / Please to inform me if the within has your approbation / I believe the Slaughter house & Smiths shop are / such as the Butcher and Smith will like // M^r Praed desired me to say he shall be at / M^r Alexander's, N^o9 Bedford Row tomorrow / and will be glad to see you there. // He will be much obliged to you to remind him / that he has to speak to you about the sheds, / about a Lamp for to be placed over the / Door of the Saddle Room, and about my going / to Cornwall; Likewise about the Clock // I informed M^r Praed you had told me your / Ideas about the sheds, and that I had formd / the within Drawing, as near as I could to coincide / with them // I am Sir / Your Faithful Serv^t/ Henry Provis, Newport Pagnell atⁿ thirty / two / John Soane Esqr / Lincolns Inn Fields / For W Praed

Signed and dated

30 October 1800
Tyringham / Oct^r30 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and grey, pink and yellow washes on laid paper with seven fold marks (399 x 322)

Hand

Henry Provis (1760 - 1830), draughtsman
Henry Provis (clerk of works at Tyringham)

Watermark

1795 and fleur-de-lis

Literature

P. Dean, Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p. 185.

Level

Drawing

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