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The 'pasticcio', a column of fragments including marble, stone and cast iron elements, erected by Soane at the heart of his Museum in the Monument Court.
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The 'pasticcio', a column of fragments including marble, stone and cast iron elements, erected by Soane at the heart of his Museum in the Monument Court.
Marble, stone and cast iron
Museum number: MC26
On display: Monument Court
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
John Soane described the pieces making up this monument to architecture in the 1830, 1832 and 1835 editions of his Description as follows: ...in the centre of this court is an architectural Pasticcio of about thirty feet high. This Pasticcio is composed of the pedestal upon which the Cast of the Belvidere [sic] Apollo, now in the Museum, was charged; a marble Capital of Hindu architecture; a Capital in stone, like those of the Temple at Tivoli, and of the same dimensions; and another Capital of Gothic invension. These are surmounted by architectural Groups of varied forms, composed of fragments from different works, chiefly in cast iron, placed one upon the other; the whole terminated with a Pine Apple.
The drum base of the column is the stone pedestal said to have supported Soane's cast of the Apollo Belvedere (SM M875) at the point when it was presented to Soane (and probably when it belonged to the Earl of Burlington).
The drum base of the column is the stone pedestal said to have supported Soane's cast of the Apollo Belvedere (SM M875) at the point when it was presented to Soane (and probably when it belonged to the Earl of Burlington).
Literature
John Soane, Description ..., 1832, p.7
John Soane, Description, 1835, p.29
Helen Dorey, 'Sir John Soane's Courtyard Gardens at Lincoln's Inn Fields', The London Gardener (Journal of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust), 2000
Helen Dorey, ‘Soane’s pasticcio’, The Georgian, the magazine of The Georgian Group, November 2003 (issue devoted to the 250th anniversary of Soane’s birth)
John Soane, Description, 1835, p.29
Helen Dorey, 'Sir John Soane's Courtyard Gardens at Lincoln's Inn Fields', The London Gardener (Journal of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust), 2000
Helen Dorey, ‘Soane’s pasticcio’, The Georgian, the magazine of The Georgian Group, November 2003 (issue devoted to the 250th anniversary of Soane’s birth)
Associated items
M875, displayed together
The drum base of the pasticcio is described by Soane as having previously been the base on which this statue stood (before it entered his collection).
The drum base of the pasticcio is described by Soane as having previously been the base on which this statue stood (before it entered his collection).
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