[20] Measured drawing of one bay of Senate House, 1791

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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 71/3/10

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
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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

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