Record drawing of the Royal Gallery

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, 1823-24 (66)
        Record drawings of the alterations to the House of Lords

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Reference number

SM volume 61/37

Purpose

Record drawing of the Royal Gallery

Aspect

Interior perspective looking towards the Painted Chamber with staffage

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia, raw umber, yellow, green, pink and blue washes with raw umber wash border on wove paper (373 x 277), pasted into volume 61

Notes

The Royal Gallery is a three-bay room with the bays divided by arches supported by Ionic columns. Each bay has a canopy-domed ceiling with a lantern and a clerestory of semi-circular windows, and the central bay has a cupola over it. The walls are panelled and hung with paintings depicting British naval and military victories. The double doors at the end of the Gallery lead into the Painted Chamber. The Royal Gallery was a very elaborately-decorated space. This drawing may be compared with an exhibition drawing, P285, which shows a more austere version of the gallery.

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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