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Reference number

SM volume 54/5-6

Purpose

Record drawing of decorative details in the Royal Gallery

Aspect

Details of a pendentive, capital, soffit, vaulted ceiling and frieze

Inscribed

labelled (pencil): Royal Gallery House of Lords (Details), Marble / lowest Cap[ital], Arch above the / Columns, A, A same ornament as in the frieze only 1 inch larger, Frieze over / Pilasters &c and some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on wove paper (in sketchbook) (281 x 424)

Hand

Soane Office

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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