[1] Design No.2 (15 May 1807)

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  - London: Charlotte (now Hallam) Street: mausoleum for Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807 (18)
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Reference number

SM 67/6/15

Purpose

[1] Design No.2 (15 May 1807)

Aspect

Interior perspective

Inscribed

View of the design N^O.2

Signed and dated

15/05/1807
Lincolns Inn Fields / May:15 1807

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and yelllow washes, with mutli-ruled border on wove paper with an applied green wash (428 x 315)

Hand

Nothing recorded in the offfice Day Book

Notes

The drawing is dated 15 May 1807, Desenfans died on 8 July 1807 so the project for a mausoleum must have been discussed earlier.
The drawing shows fluted Greek Doric columns without bases, a top-lit domed roof and three steps into a further vaulted space. 'Between the columns and in the apses of the burial chamber are urns in niches and, on the end wall, memorial tablets in the form of Roman cinerary urns. Three sarcophagi wered added to the plan later by Soane'. (T>Drysdale, op.cit.p.120

Level

drawing

Exhibition history

Soane's Favourite Subject: The Story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 26 May - 30 July 2000

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