Design for the interior of a new House of Lords, 13 June 1825

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
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        Designs for new committee rooms and a new House of Lords (sections and interior perspectives), June 1825

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Reference number

SM 51/3/52

Purpose

Design for the interior of a new House of Lords, 13 June 1825

Aspect

Section through the new House of Lords looking east

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(pencil) dimensions given

Signed and dated

13 June 1825
13/6/25

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia and pink washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on wove paper (554 x 732)

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)

Notes

The House of Lords is narrower here than in SM 51/3/47 but slightly less than three feet taller and has a coved ceiling. Otherwise the ornamentation is the same as in the earlier design with, for example, winged victories (derived from Napoleonic influences) above the throne (S. Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, p. 750). The eight pencil circles above the section relate to the eight columns of the portico facing the river.

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Drawing

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