Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Unexecuted variant designs for an unidentified monumental entrance to a park

Reference number

SM D3/13/1

Purpose

Unexecuted variant designs for an unidentified monumental entrance to a park

Aspect

[2] Variant elevation
  • image SM D3/13/1

Scale

to a scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen, green earth, blue, raw umber and sepia washes, watercolour technique on laid paper (225 x 470)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Dance keeps the pyramids, urns and plinth / wall of his first design but adds in the centre an elaborate gateway, tent-like with a circular roof and a scalloped parapet over an entrance with archaic inward-sloping jambs. The rather exuberant structure is topped by a crown that (except for six instead of five knobs) is like an earl's coronet. Kalman (p.375, n.43) describes the central building as a 'Chinese crowned portal'. The combination of Egyptian, Greek, Chinese (or Indian) and archaic forms is remarkably free.

For another pyramdal design.
REPRODUCED, Stroud fig.76a, captioned 'Monument to General George Washington'.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk