[31] Design for side elevation

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Dunninald House, Craig, Angus: unexecuted designs for David Scott, 1795 (43)
    - Variant designs in a Castle style (19)

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Reference number

SM volume 59/25

Purpose

[31] Design for side elevation

Aspect

Side elevation

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

David Scott Esq^r, Elevation of the End Front

Signed and dated

17/7/1795
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields July 17^th 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black and sepia washes, shaded with triple ruled and black wash border on laid paper (258 x 440) tipped into volume 59, page 25

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

fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, GR

Notes

The windows in their variety, the crenellation and mouldings continue the castle theme found in the front and garden elevations.

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