• Unknown, Great Britain, 18th century (draughtsman)
• Sir John Soane (architect)
• Sir John Soane (draughtsman)
• John Robins (patron)

Plan for a villa for Norwood Green, Middlesex

3 July 1801

The plan of the building in pen and black ink and grey wash over graphite was executed by a draughtsman in Soane's office on the basis of pin-pricks transferring the design from another sheet. Soane's changes to this initial plan concern the addition of saucer domes in the main hall, and recesses in the "Eat. Room", which resulted in a change in the position of the fireplace in "Mr. Rs Room". The front porch was widened, presumably from the Doric version shown by Dorothy Stroud (1984, pl. 150) to one which includes "trelliage", showing a concern for setting this rural building in its landscape. This change, and its reflection in drawings in the Soane Museum (Drawer 4, set 4, Items 14-24) are discussed by Pierre du Prey (1986).

• design drawing

Pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite, with additions and alterations in pen and brown ink

sheet: 35.0 x 51.4 cm

DR1983:0859

• rendering
• pentimenti

• plan (drawing)

inscribed - by John Soane, in pen and brown ink, u.l.: "No. 4 (underlined) / NB This plan Mr. R. took to / Mrs. R. trot:d it (?) / only wishing to have a. b. wider / for bed above"; u.c.: "3 Eat. Ch: w a(?) / Library Shutter (?)"; l.r.: "Mr. Robins / July 3d. 1801"; l.c.: "porch with trelliage"; inscribed - in a later hand, in graphite, u.l.: "Sir John Soane (partially underlined)".

Middlesex; England; United Kingdom;

• architecture