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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM volume 66/41
Purpose
[13] As built plan of basement floor
Aspect
Basement Story as Built
Scale
bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, The Duke of Leeds, rooms labelled: Passage (six times), Area (three times), Engine Room, Kitchen, Washouse, Cellar (five times), Beer Cellar, Cistern, Light (skylight) and dimensions given including some vertical dimensions
Signed and dated
- Lincolns Inn Fields July 1st 1794
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black, sepia and blue washes with quadruple ruled and black wash border on wove paper (700 x 494) on page 41 of volume 66
Notes
The plan of the basement shows it divided into three parts that are each separated by an 'area'. Excluding the cellars under the pavement, the front part, washed in black, has four storeys above it. The end part washed in a medium sepia includes the kitchen and the laundry (with a stair) and would have been two-storeyed. With a cistern and a glazed roof it is separated by another 'area' from the middle part indicated by a pale sepia wash. This was presumably one storey high and would have been covered so as to make a paved garden. The house next door, No.20 St James's Square, designed by Robert Adam for Sir Watkins William Wynn in 1771-5 had a paved court with a handsome garden screen.*
*The drawings for a 'screen wall to courtyard at back' are in the Adam collection of the Soane Museum (volume 40, 72 and 73) (together with drawings for the house).
*The drawings for a 'screen wall to courtyard at back' are in the Adam collection of the Soane Museum (volume 40, 72 and 73) (together with drawings for the house).
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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