[2] Design for street front

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: 12 Stratton Streeet, new house for Colonel Thomas Graham, later 1st Lord Lynedoch, 1797-8 (39)
    - Designs not as executed, 1797 (15)

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Reference number

SM 39/3/3

Purpose

[2] Design for street front

Aspect

Elevation and section (verso) rough plan and interior perspective of a room with a bow having three French windows

Scale

to a scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above,Col^l Graham

Signed and dated

22/06/1797
June 22^d 1797

Medium and dimensions

Pen , sepia and pale red washes, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (540 x 330) (verso) pencil

Hand

Inscriptions by Soane.
The Soane office Day Book for 22 June 1797 has (under Colonel Graham) Jeans / Seward / Good - that is:
Thomas Jeans (c.1775 - 1866), pupil August 1792 - 25 August 1797
Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848), pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808
Henry Joseph Good (1775 - 1857), pupil January 1795 - January 1799

Notes

The elevation shows the attic with two dormer windows rather than the single dormer of drawing [1]. The storey heights (starting with the basement) are given as: 8 feet 6 inches, 11 feet, 12 feet, 9 feet and (attic) 7 feet. The building is 20 feet wide. The elevation shows the toothing often used by Soane. Here it consists of a row of horizontal stretcher bricks in which every other brick is supported by an end-wise brick making a series of T shapes.
The verso has a part-plan of a ceiling which is basically a circle within a square. The perspective shows a three-windowed bow, a panelled door and a chimneypiece. There is a reference on drawing [26] ( which is a design for the library placed in the front room of the first floor) to a 'Balcony ... if possible to project as much as the bow window'. A later drawing (dated 1801) of the front elevation shows it without a bow ( cf. drawing [39]).

Level

Drawing

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