Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, England: Elevations and plan for a double cottage and Sunday school

People:

Unknown, Great Britain, 18th century (draughtsman)
Sir John Soane (draughtsman)
Sir John Soane (architect)
Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke (patron)

Title:

Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, England: Elevations and plan for a double cottage and Sunday school

Date:

between 1793 and 1794

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

working drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and black ink, black wash, watercolour and graphite on laid paper; inscriptions: brown ink and graphite

Dimensions:

sheet (irreg.): 49,3 x 32,2 cm

Reference number:

DR1983:0854 r

Drawing Type:

line drawing
finished drawing
rendering

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
elevations (drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

La feuille a déjà été reliée.

Inscription:

inscribed by the draughtsman?, in pen and brown ink, u.l.: "Design for two cottages & also for a / Sunday School"; l.c.: "A for Boys / B for Girls"; l.l.: "It is proposed that this building will / make the cottages, & also serve for the Sunday School, as the master passes / from one room to the other in the dry / (thro the Porch) if so the Porch is ornamental / + precludes the necessity of making these cottages larger"; l.l.: "The Earl of Hardwicke"; each view titled; rooms labelled; inscribed in a later hand, in graphite, l.r.: "Sir John Soane (partially underlined)"

Location:

United Kingdom;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

cottage
Sunday school

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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