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Term figure 'from the attic of the Holborn front of Furnival’s Inn, taken down in the year 1818'
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Caryatid SM MC28. Photograph:© A.C. Cooper (Colour) Ltd (detail)
Term figure 'from the attic of the Holborn front of Furnival’s Inn, taken down in the year 1818'
Stone
Museum number: MC28
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
In his 1835 Description Soane commented that this caryatid from the Old Furnival's Inn is here preserved to shew the state of art when that structure was erected.
This building, close to Soane's home, on High Holborn was one that he obviously admired, commissioning Henry Parke to make a survey and produce a fine Royal Academy lecture drawing (a measured elevation) in the year that it was demlished, and collecting this caryatid, a head and a capital for his collection.
This building, close to Soane's home, on High Holborn was one that he obviously admired, commissioning Henry Parke to make a survey and produce a fine Royal Academy lecture drawing (a measured elevation) in the year that it was demlished, and collecting this caryatid, a head and a capital for his collection.
Provenance
SM Archive 16/15: Statement of Account 'John Soane Esq... with David Laing' contains the following item '1818 For Fragments of Ornaments from the Old Buildings at Furnival's Inn, Holborn' £2.2.0'. The account lists further payments due in 1820 and is endorsed as settled on 29 April 1826.
Literature
J. Soane, Description, 1835, p.29
Associated items
MC30, same building (from)
MC36, same building (from)
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59/1/17, related material
MC36, same building (from)
76/4/3, related material
89/3/7, related material
59/1/17, related material
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