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Reference number

SM 18/7/13

Purpose

Guildhall, City of London

Aspect

[1] Elevation
  • image SM 18/7/13
Soane office, George Dance the Elder and Younger, Guildhall. SM 18/7/13. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(black pen) 1039, (red pen) 166 and (on building, City motto) DOMINE DIRIGE NOS ('Lord guide us')

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, yellow ochre and blue washes, pencil within ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (925 x 625)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

Edmeads & Pine 1804

Notes

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.37a; J Sweetman, The Oriental obsession, Islamic inspiration in British and American art and architecture, 1500-1920, Cambridge, 1991, fig.51.

Level

Drawing

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