Unidentified Gate Lodge Design
Architectural Drawing
ca. 1796-1863 (made)
ca. 1796-1863 (made)
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Perspective view of a thatched single-storey rectangular lodge of rough stone with brick dressings around the tracery windows. Ashlar pilaster strips on corner and on projecting open arched porch.
Object details
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| Title | Unidentified Gate Lodge Design (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | pen and ink with watercolour |
| Brief description | Perspective view of an unidentified thatched single-storey rectangular gate lodge, probably designed by John Soane, 18th-19th century. |
| Physical description | Perspective view of a thatched single-storey rectangular lodge of rough stone with brick dressings around the tracery windows. Ashlar pilaster strips on corner and on projecting open arched porch. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Design for lodge (inscribed on page) |
| Object history | Although this perspective is carefully worked out no commission relating to it has been traced. The design closely resembles a lodge design of 1796 for J. Gray (Sir John Soane's Museum, Drawer 62, Set 8, Item 24). This drawing was pasted into a copy of Sir John Soane's book Designs for Public and Private Buildings owned by Soane's assistant Charles James Richardson. Richardson built up a large collection of originals and copies (many of which he executed himself) of his master's designs, and distributed the bulk of them into two folio volumes, interspersed with the printed pages of the book. These volumes were bought by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) in 1863. |
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| Bibliographic reference | du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p.47, cat.46. |
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| Accession number | 3306:174 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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