[8] Sections through burial chamber and entrance (28 August 1807)

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [8] Sections through burial chamber and entrance (28 August 1807)

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Town houses
  - London: Charlotte (now Hallam) Street: mausoleum for Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807 (18)
    - Designs arranged by date, May to September 1807

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 67/6/9

Purpose

[8] Sections through burial chamber and entrance (28 August 1807)

Aspect

Section on the line C D, Section on the line E F

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, 2 omit Urn, Sir Francis Bourgeois

Signed and dated

28/08/1807
L.I.F. Aug^st 28:1807

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, blue and pink washes, pencil added, shaded, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (667 x 448)

Hand

James Adams Jun. (1785-1850) (pupil May 1806 - June 1809) and Charles Malton (1788-?) (pupil and assistant February 1802- December 1809)

Notes

A comparison with drawing [7] shows tentative changes to the area flanking the single sarchophagus as well as a note to omit the added urns. Both drawings ([7] and [8]) were made on the same day and it is not clear which was made first. See also drawing [12] which is similar except for the omission of the arches above the sarcophagi.

Level

drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).