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[20] Measured drawing of one bay of Senate House, 1791
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Reference number
SM 71/3/10
Purpose
[20] Measured drawing of one bay of Senate House, 1791
Aspect
Elevation showing a ground floor and a first floor window and balustrade above, with one column without its capital and (verso, Soane) plan of lecture theatre (similar design as SM 71/3/14)
Scale
bar scale of 7/16 inch to 1 foot (verso) to a scale
Inscribed
(pencil) Copied and (pen) dimensions given (verso) plan labelled: Library, Vestibule, Orchestra / &c, The dotted lines / shew the Capitals and (pencil referring to statues in niches) Pythagoras, Cicero, Seneca and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1791
see Notes
Medium and dimensions
Pen (verso: pen and pencil) on wove paper (545 x 455)
Hand
(recto) Soane office (verso) Soane
Notes
Soane's office 'Ledger C' has an entry for 26 April 1791 '...measured the Front of the Senate House &c for making the improvements'. This copy of that drawing was probably made soon afterwards.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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