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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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Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)

1798

The only references in Soane's office records to Wycombe House appear in the Daybook for 1798-1799 and begin on Tuesday 28 August 1798 with 'Seward set off for High Wycombe / to take Plans of Wycombe House / by Birmingham Coach'. On the following Saturday Seward had returned 'from taking Plan of Wycombe' and on the following Tuesday and Saturday he was 'Drawing out Plans of Wycombe House with alterations'. After these four entries (the last on 8 September 1798) nothing more appears. Presumably the explanation is that, in 1798, the house was sold to Robert Smith, later 1st Lord Carrington, who commissioned James Wyatt to significantly alter the building in c. 1803-4.

Literature. N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, 2nd edition, 1994, p. 391.

Madeleine Helmer/Jill Lever, April 2012

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Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)

Design for alterations to the house

Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)

[1] Design for alterations to the house

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and then assistant 1794-1808), with label added by George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil and assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)
Bailey, George (1792--1860)
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and then assistant 1794-1808), with label added by George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil and assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

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Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)

Survey and design for outbuildings (2)

Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)

[2] Survey of house and outbuildings

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and then assistant 1794-1808)

Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire: alterations to the house and outbuildings for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, 1798 (3)

[3] Design for outbuildings

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and then assistant 1794-1808)

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