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Designs to combine the entrances into Hyde Park, St James’s Park and the Western entrance into the Metropolis in one uniform style of architecture. These designs altered from those exhibited in the Royal Academy in the year MDCCCXVII, are inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Wellington.
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Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)
Designs to combine the entrances into Hyde Park, St James’s Park and the Western entrance into the Metropolis in one uniform style of architecture. These designs altered from those exhibited in the Royal Academy in the year MDCCCXVII, are inscribed to his Grace the Duke of Wellington.
1829
Watercolour on paper
Museum number: P85
Not on display
Curatorial note
Soane office, London: Hyde Park, St James's Park, entrance to London: designs for Entrances to two Royal parks and for a western entrance to London made in 1829, altered from those exhib. RA, 1817, bird's-eye view.
Exhib: RA 1829, no.1128
A sketch among Soane's drawings (Vol.69/89) dated March 1829 is either a preparatory sketch for this work with a proposal for its frame or a sketch made of it after it was framed ready for exhibition. The frame is one of the characteristic flat gilt frames used by Soane when exhibiting the large architectural watercolours prepared for him by Joseph Gandy at the Royal Academy.
Exhib: RA 1829, no.1128
A sketch among Soane's drawings (Vol.69/89) dated March 1829 is either a preparatory sketch for this work with a proposal for its frame or a sketch made of it after it was framed ready for exhibition. The frame is one of the characteristic flat gilt frames used by Soane when exhibiting the large architectural watercolours prepared for him by Joseph Gandy at the Royal Academy.
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