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[4] Design for alterations and additions to the ground floor, 1798
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Reference number
SM 5/1/19
Purpose
[4] Design for alterations and additions to the ground floor, 1798
Aspect
Plan of the ground floor
Scale
bar scale of 3/16 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Mr Biscoe, Sketch of a Design for the proposed Alterations and Additions, labelled: Hall, Drawing Room, Anti Room, Eating Room
Signed and dated
- 1798
1798
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer within triple ruled sepia and black wash border on laid paper (473 x 592)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
J Larking and fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR
Notes
This is the most presentable of the four drawings and may have been intended to be shown to the client. The lobby between the Hall and the Anti Room has a curved wall with niches. Subsequently the Ante Room is a rectangle. The enfilade is through the centre of the Drawing Room and Eating Room.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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