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Reference number
SM volume 42/55
Purpose
Variant sketch designs
Aspect
Three rough plans of ground floor, rough elevation of ? fountain and (verso) another variant plan of ground floor
Inscribed
Rooms labelled: Kitc[hen], Back Cou[rt], Lib.[rary], d-- (illegible), Breakf[ast room], draw[ing room], Eat[ing room], Ball[room], some dimensions given and calculations, and (pencil) Asylum / Preacher / Mr Richardson; (verso, pencil) rooms labelled
Signed and dated
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Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown pen on laid paper (237 x 377)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
fleur-de-lis and 1810
Notes
These variant plans precede seven more (on four sheets, SM 73/4/1-4) dated 16 and 23 November 1818. William Hamilton, Provincial Agent had asked Soane to design an Assembly, Legislative Council, Courts and accommodation for officials as well as a Residence but the project never got beyond these initial designs.
Literature
D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed., 1996, p.276; G.Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, p. 251
Level
Drawing
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