[9] Front elevation

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Reading, Berkshire: Friar Street, house for Lancelot Austwick, 1796 (32)
    - Designs made March 1796 (12)

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Reference number

SM 2/7A/18

Purpose

[9] Front elevation

Aspect

Elevation of the Front

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Lancelot Austwick Esqr , (pencil)to be fill^dup to the top as you canand to be fill^dup the same

Signed and dated

11/03/1796
11th March 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pale yellow and blue washes on laid paper (541 x 422)

Hand

Soane office hand (no entry in Day Book)

Notes

The front elevation is very plain, three windows wide and with a door at each end. The instruction 'to ... fill up to the top as you can' refers to the vertical spaces over the single storey entrances on each side. This would add 10 feet 6 inches to the width of the house at first and second floor levels. See drawings [15] and [16] for another, very different, design for the front elevation

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Drawing

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