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Reference number

SM volume 62/63

Purpose

[8] Record design for a new house: plan and elevation

Aspect

Ground floor plan and elevation

Scale

bar scale of 1/13 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

T. P. Phipps Esq / The Entrance front of a design proposed, The Plan of the Hall Floor, rooms labelled: Hall, Dressing Room, Library, Eating Room, Breakfast and Dining Room

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, red and blue washes on thin laid paper (365 x 236) mounted on p.63 of volume 62

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

The plan is fairly similar to to the right-hand plan of drawing [1] though with a deeper bow and with the stairs placed next to each other thus allowing for an extra reception room. The elevation is formal with, for example, the blank end bays having square-headed alcoves for urns below square niches each with a roundel; four pilasters model the the centre with (ground floor) three-part door and windows beneath blind segmental heads. Small sculpted lions guard the entrance.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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