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[22] Variant design for first floor plan 'L' in a Castle style
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Reference number
SM volume 59/33
Purpose
[22] Variant design for first floor plan 'L' in a Castle style
Aspect
First floor plan
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
David Scott Esqr, Plan of the One Pair Floor, rooms labelled: Dressing Room / and / Occasional Chamber, Chamber (four times), Dressing Room and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 17/7/1795
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields July 17 1795
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia washes on laid paper (308 x 517) tipped into volume 59, page 33
Hand
The office Day Book has an entry for 17 July 1795 : 'David Scott Esq /Abt fair copies of drawings Meyer / Jeans, Seward, Good'. These were four of the five pupils then serving their articles with Soane. See general notes for full names and dates.
Watermark
J Larking fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR
Notes
The layout varies from that of the preceding drawing [21] so that the two bedrooms on the garden side are without partitions, the dressing room between them is made larger and a dressing room added between the two staircases. The round turrets (entrance side) have a single window as does [21].
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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