[151] Presentation drawing of the entrance hall

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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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  - Bentley Priory, Harrow, London: (executed) two additions, outbuildings and an entrance hall addition for John James Hamilton, later 9th Earl, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1788-1799, 1805 (178)
    - Presentation drawings of the entrance hall, one for exhibition at the Royal Academy, one dated 1 May 1798 (3)

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Reference number

SM volume 60/54

Purpose

[151] Presentation drawing of the entrance hall

Aspect

Interior perspective

Signed and dated

c. May 1798
Datable to c. May 1798 in accord with drawing 150

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including raw umber, grey, sepia and Payne's grey on paper pasted down (230 x 248)

Hand

Attributed to Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman
Attributed to J.M. Gandy (1771-1843)

Watermark

pasted down in volume

Literature

P. du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 212.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

In Pursuit of Antiquity: Drawings by the Giants of British Neo-Classicism, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1 February - 1 June 2008; Tchoban Foundation Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, 3 October 2015 - 14 February 2016

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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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