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[10] Record copies of plans for the basement and ground floor
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Reference number
SM volume 62/56
Purpose
[10] Record copies of plans for the basement and ground floor
Aspect
Plan of the Basement Story and The Plan of the Hall floor
Scale
bar scale of 1/17 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, Design for a Town / House, basement rooms labelled: Butler, CHECK, Court, House Keeper, Servants Hall, Wine Cellar, Steward and Passage to Offices and (feint pencil) Basement ? 64 one cellar
Signed and dated
- Smirke Octr 5 1796
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown pen and feint pencil inscriptions, red and sepia washes on thin laid paper (overall 220 x 357) sheets attached to each other by red sealing wax and with glue or paste at the corners to page 56 of volume 62
Hand
Robert Smirke (1780-1867), pupil May 1796-January 1797, Soane inscriptions
Notes
Copied from earlier drawings [1] and [2] as an exercise by Smirke when (briefly) a pupil. The inscriptions added by Soane preserves the anonymity of place and client.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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