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A truss composed of ribbon ornament
Early 19th century
Plaster
Museum number: M770
On display: Dome Area
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This is one of a group of items displayed together on top of a framed cast in the Dome Area in a grouping seemingly designed to demonstrate the close connection between architectural or man-made sculptural forms and natural forms with a piece of ‘brain coral’ alongside casts of feet, and two trusses in the form of ribbon moulding which resemble vertebrae.
Similar (or possibly identical) elements were used by Soane in the £5 Note Office at the Bank of England, 1805-06 (see surviving photographs, for example in John Soane, Academy Editions Monograph 1983, facing p.74 (fig. 27).
Similar (or possibly identical) elements were used by Soane in the £5 Note Office at the Bank of England, 1805-06 (see surviving photographs, for example in John Soane, Academy Editions Monograph 1983, facing p.74 (fig. 27).
Associated items
M766, another similar
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