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Reference number
SM Volume 42/35
Purpose
Record drawing
Aspect
Details from a Cast of one of the Gothic niches at St George's Chapel / Windsor for Mr Soane's acceptance showing a half-elevation of a crocketed ogee arch with cusped and rosette trefoils and trefoil-headed panels behind; and half-elevation labelled (Soane) Back of four-centred arch with mouchette, trefoil and quatrefoil shapes and cinquefoil headed panelling; and detail of moulding
Inscribed
as above, addressed from Ornamental Stone Manuf[actor]y / ... / Mr Sealys Comp[limen]ts - find herewith ...
Signed and dated
- 12 Jany 1790
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown pen (inscriptions) on laid paper with two fold marks (202 x 160)
Hand
Coade workshop
Watermark
(part of) S. Lay over C
Notes
St George's Chapel, Windsor was begun in 1475 by Edward IV and completed by about 1511. The Windsor architect and builder Henry Emlyn (c.1729-1815) restored it between 1787 and 1792 and his work included the successful design of the Gothic organ gallery which was executed in Coade stone. Coade stone was a ceramic artificial stone, manufactured in Lambeth from 1769 by Eleanor Coade (1733-1821). John Sealy was a cousin who worked there, becoming a partner in 1799. Soane used Coade stone for many of his buildings.
Literature
A.Kelly, Mrs Coade's stone, 1990, Upton-upon Severn, pp.216-7; H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed., 1995
Level
Drawing
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