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Reference number

SM volume 69/4

Purpose

[118] Drawing of the music hall as built, chimney-piece and ceiling, August 1798

Aspect

Detail of The chimney piece base mouldings and mouldings in the ceiling of music room and elevation of chimney-piece showing the grate

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, black / 4 in Dia[meter], 1 in 5/8, 7 in 3/4 squ[a]re, veined marble (sic), Black marble (twice), 1 in, 4 3/4, 5/8, Lining of chimney / 3'6 x 4'3 wd, 2 in, 6 in, 2 in, 1 1/2, (feint pencil) Grate

Signed and dated

  • August 1798
    Datable to August 1798 in accord with drawing 119

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on laid paper (234 x 366)

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman

Watermark

Buttanshaw 1794

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Soane's Magician: The Tragic Genius of Joseph Michael Gandy, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 31 March - 12 August 2006

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