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Working drawings for doors, November 1832 (3)
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Reference number
SM (149) 82/2/52 (150) 82/2/53 (151) 82/2/54
Purpose
Working drawings for doors, November 1832 (3)
Aspect
149 Details of doors for the Basement and Ground and One Pair Floors; (verso) details of balustrades in the galleries
150 Detail of a door
151 Details of two doors
Scale
(149) to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot; (verso) bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot (151) bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
149 as above, labelled: 7.0, 3.4, 7.6, 3.6½
150 labelled: New State Paper Office, (pencil) 3 / 60 / 20 / 6
151 labelled: New State Paper Office
Signed and dated
- November 1832
(150) Novr 1832 (151) 9 Novr 1832 and 10 or 11 Novr 32
Medium and dimensions
(149) Pen and yellow wash (verso: pen, blue, grey and yellow washes), pricked for transfer on wove paper (374 x 532) (150) pen and grey wash, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (327 x 302) (151) pen, grey and yellow ochre washes on wove paper (328 x 537)
Hand
(149-151) unattributed
Notes
The difference in status between the doors for the basement and the doors for the ground and first floors is expressed by the number of rolls around the panels - the basement door panels have one roll whereas the ground floor door panels have three. The door in drawing 150 is studded, suggesting that it is reinforced. On drawing 33 the library has two iron doors but, as Susan Palmer points out, there is no evidence that these were ever made (S. Palmer, 'Sir John Soane and the design of the new State Paper Office', Archivaria, 2005, p. 57). The location of the doors in drawing 151 is also unknown. The details show the mouldings and joints between the panels and the stiles of the doors.
The balustrades on the library galleries (drawing 149 verso) are approximately 3½ feet tall and are decorated with diamond patterns and rosettes, a typical feature of Soane's balustrades as found at, for example, 12-14 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
The balustrades on the library galleries (drawing 149 verso) are approximately 3½ feet tall and are decorated with diamond patterns and rosettes, a typical feature of Soane's balustrades as found at, for example, 12-14 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Level
Drawing
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