[24] Alternative designs for railings, 1792

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  - Cambridge: (unexecuted) University picture gallery, museum and lecture rooms for Senate House, 1791, and design for railings, 1792 (24)

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Reference number

SM 71/3/9

Purpose

[24] Alternative designs for railings, 1792

Aspect

Plan and elevation of the eastern end of the Senate House showing the enclosing railings to a larger scale and with a (rough pencil, Soane) detail of a finial

Inscribed

N^o4, Design for Enclosing the Senate House Etc^a/ The University of Cambridge and Gates

Signed and dated

31 March 1792
Signed by: J. Postlethwaite V. Chan^or / J. Smith / J.Barker / T. Kipling / J.Turner / G.Borlase / W. Collier / R.Tyrwhitt / T. Kerrich / J. Plampin and dated March 31^st1792.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black and sepia washes, shaded with quadruple-ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper with one fold mark (584 x 455)

Hand

Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1788-94)

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W

Notes

Soane's office 'Ledger B' has an entry for 1 February 1792 ' No. 4 fair drawings of different designs for enclosing the Area of the Senate House'. Subsequent entries deal with repairs to the greenhouse in the Botanic Gardens and drains and paving. Other commissions for Cambridge buildings were for Gonville and Caius College and St John's College, 1792 (q.q.v).

The current railings correspond with the design show in SM 71/3/14.

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Drawing

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