[3] Design for first floor 'No 1'

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  - Bagden Lodge, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire: unexecuted designs for alterations and additions, 1795 (15)

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Reference number

SM 6/2/15

Purpose

[3] Design for first floor 'No 1'

Aspect

First floor plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the One Pair Floor of Bagden House / with the Proposed Alterations, No 1, The Earl of Ailesbury, rooms labelled: Chamber (5 times), Dressing / Room, Nursery (twice), Closet (twice) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

11/6/1795
Lincolns Inn Fields June 11th 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red, black, blue and sepia washes, triple ruled and black wash border, pricked for transfer on stout wove paper (487 x 687)

Hand

The office Day Book entry for 11 June 1795 has Meyer, Jeans, Seward and Good as making drawings for the 'Earl of Ailesbury'. These were four of the five pupils then serving their articles with Soane. (See introductory notes for full names and dates)

Notes

The exisiting house provides three bed chambers, two closets and the stair - the rest is new.

Level

Drawing

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