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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42)
  - Volume 42/24: Sir Henry Cheere, Bt (1703-81): Tomb

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Reference number

SM volume 42/24

Purpose

Design

Aspect

Elevation of a sarcophagus set on a pedestal and against an obelisk. The pitched lid of the sarcophagus has an anthemion on a patera, below is an enriched cavetto moulding, and scroll feet enriched with acanthus. The pedestal has double husk wreaths and drops suspended from a ribbon bow and the obelisk has a larger wreath and a drop hung from a ribbon bow and with two sprays of lilies

Scale

bar scale (pricked for transfer)

Medium and dimensions

Pen on thin laid paper (305 x 160)

Hand

Sir Henry Cheere, Bt (1703-81) or his workshop

Watermark

scrolly ? W encircled

Notes

The hand, medium and support are the same as for 42/14 and 42/33. Drawing 42/33 (q.v.) has been identified as from the hand of Sir Henry Cheere (1703-81) or his workshop and the drawing catalogued here has been attributed to him. The same hand made the drawing for another design for a tomb in the form of a sarcophagus set on a pedestal and against an obelisk see SM 'Miscellaneous drawings' volume 57/89 and see also 57/91*.

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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