[1] Three alternative designs

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Southwark Cathedral: designs drawn by Soane for a memorial tablet to Abraham Newland, 1808 (3)

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Reference number

SM 63/6/12

Purpose

[1] Three alternative designs

Aspect

Elevations

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

I 2 3

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on wove paper (210 x 532)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837)

Notes

The first of the three designs is closest to the executed design [2] and [3]. That is, a slightly tapered tablet crowned by a pediment with two quarter-lotus stops at the top and (later designs) a band of scrolled foliage at the bottom. The variant designs are not tapered: desiign 2 has an arched pediment stopped by two large scrolls while desgin 3 is the least succesful and is a version of design 1.

Level

drawing

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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.

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