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[4] Design for elevation in a Classical style, 'A No. 2'
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Reference number
SM volume 59/15
Purpose
[4] Design for elevation in a Classical style, 'A No. 2'
Aspect
Front elevation in a setting
Scale
bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
David Scott Esqr, A / No. 2
Signed and dated
- 7/1795
John Soane Archt July 1795
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia,raw Sienna, black, blue and green washes, shaded with sepia and sepia and black wash border on laid paper (283 x 462) tipped into volume 59, page 15
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR
Notes
Labelled 'A No.2' this design is intended as a variant of design 'A No.1' so that it has an Ionic portico but with four instead of six columns and as with drawing [1] there is banded rustication for the ground floor. Different is a crowning balustrade that runs the width of the elevation and neither basement nor attic are shown but instead there is a three-bay, pedimented second floor to the rear.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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