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  • image SM volume 62/56

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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