[43] View of the completed monument, drawn by George Basevi, May 1816

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  - London: St Giles in the Fields burial ground (now St Pancras Gardens), Camden: Soane monument [the 'Soane Tomb'], 1816, 1828 (47)

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Reference number

SM 14/4/7

Purpose

[43] View of the completed monument, drawn by George Basevi, May 1816

Aspect

View from north-east, a larger and more fiinished version of drawing SM volume 60/188

Signed and dated

datable to May 1816

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, green, raw umber, burnt umber, sepia and light blue washes on wove paper with two old repairs (724 x 1215)

Hand

George Basevi (1794-1845, pupil 1810-16)

Watermark

J Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1809

Notes

The faded condition and ragged edges of this drawing suggest that it was once mounted, framed and hung in Soane's house at Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Level

Drawing

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