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[7] Design for the front elevation
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Reference number
SM volume 66/52
Purpose
[7] Design for the front elevation
Aspect
Elevation of the Entrance Front Saint James' Square
Scale
bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above and running vertical dimensions given from Flooor of Basement Story
Signed and dated
- John Soane Archt June 21 1794
Medium and dimensions
Black pen, black, raw umber and sepia washes with quadruple ruled and wash border on wove paper (700 x 490) on page 52 of volume 66
Hand
attributed to Frederick Meyer (1774 - ?), pupil April 1791-1796
Notes
The front is of five bays and four storeys together with a semi-basement with segmental-headed windows. The ground floor has banded rustication and the portico has an Ionic order in which the fluted shafts are stopped for the lower one-third of their height. Soane was to use the same unconventional stopping (though for a Doric order) in his design for Tyringham in Buckinghamshire a year later. (See D.Watkin, Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Idea, 1968, p.89).
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