[4] Design for alterations and additions to the ground floor, 1798

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [4] Design for alterations and additions to the ground floor, 1798

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Unidentified house, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: alterations for Elisha Biscoe, 1798 (4)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

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

M^r 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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk