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Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Square villa: plan of the basement floor
Photo courtesy of Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- Square villa: plan of the basement floor
- Date
- c.1747–51
- Location
- Unframed, drawings chest outside Library, location 240 on Dashwood list, AP 138, Witt 941/18(36)
- Medium and support
- Pen, ink and colour wash on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 43.5 cm, Overall width: 27 cm
- Artist
- Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695-1766)
- Catalogue Number
- WW44
- Inscription
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- Inscription: ‘Plan Inferieur’ and ‘Costes de la Cour’, rooms named in French; vertical scale to 60 feet
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Description
The basement of the villa contains the service quarters; the structure is clearly connected by a passage or link to another building.