(67-69) bar scales of 1/20 inch to 1 foot (70-71) to a scale of 1/20 inch to 1 foot

(67) (feint pencil) B (68) (feint pencil) B Elevation (71) (feint pencil) Lion & Trophy, Unicorn & Trophy, Attic ----- (illegible)

• (69 verso) 13 August 1794

(67-69) Pen and sepia wash, shaded, with quadruple-ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (282 x 470, 283 x 469, 278 x 452) (70) pen, raw umber and sepia washes, shaded on wove paper (283 x 450) (71) pen and sepia wash, shaded with quadruple-ruled border on laid paper (223 x 411)

(67-71) Frederick Meyer (1775-?, pupil April 1791-1796)

(67, 69, 71) J Whatman (68) fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below an ornate W

All the designs are of seven bays (145-150 feet wide) and have six windows and a central door in a rusticated basement. Drawing 67 has two-bay wings and a three-bay, two storeys centre with four Ionic columns that support a pediment. Drawing 68 has a similar composition but without a pediment, instead the four Ionic capitals are extended by dosserets that each support a statue. Drawings 69 and 70 share the same design in which windows 1, 3-5 and 7 are framed by Ionic columns and the pedimented, three-bay attic storey rises above the architrave-cornice. Drawing 71 has pediments to the end bays and a three-bay centre with eight Ionic columns supporting a rusticated attic storey crowned by a tablet and trophy. All the designs have skyline ornament of sculpted trophies and figures.

A comparison of elevations with plans shows that drawing 71 with a riverside elevation of seven bays and eight columns corresponds with (plans) 23-25.

S. Sawyer, 'Soane in Westminster', PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, p. 189 drawing 69 verso, p. 190 drawings 70 and 71, p. 191 drawings 67 and 68.

Drawing

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