[2] Variant design and presentation drawing for the monument

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Monuments and mausolea
  - London: St Stephen's Church, Coleman Street, City of London: monument to Claude Bosanquet for Samuel Bosanquet, 1786 (5)

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Reference number

SM 63/6/16

Purpose

[2] Variant design and presentation drawing for the monument

Aspect

Elevation and plan

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Medium and dimensions

Pen and yellow and grey washes, pencil, on wove paper (232 x 381)

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Notes

The base of the monument is an inscribed tablet with tab-ends and brackets between two sarcophagal strigilated ends. Surmounting the tablet, a Doric aedicule frames an urn and is backed with a pedimented slab. The plans on both drawings show how the urn's pedestal projects further than the flanking columns.

This drawing is a development from drawing SM 63/6/7, having the same design and including the pencil alterations to that drawing, such as an ouroboros on the pediment. The strigilated urn has serpents in the handles. This drawing shows the backing slab as a yellow marble surface.

The drawing also includes gestures of naval ornament, an unfitting inclusion for the banker Claude Bosanquet, but these pencil additions were probably included when Soane reused the drawing for his designs of the Bridport Monument, 1815-16 (q.v.).

Level

Drawing

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