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Longitudinal elevation/section showing slender, gilded 'palm tree' columns and spandrels to the gallery, the balcony fronts decorated with festoons, wreaths and lyres and hanging lamps, and proscenium door
Scale: ¼ in to 1 ft
Inscribed: some dimensions given
Pen, crimson, burnt umber, yellow and green earth washes, pencil
The 'palm trees', if that is what they are, are less naturalstic than John Webb's early use of them for an unexecuted design for a bed alcove at Greenwich Palace, 1665, engraved by John Vardy in Some designs of Mr Inigo Jones ... (1744, plate 4) and more akin to those in John Nash's Great Kitchen at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1816.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.70c.
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- 1804-5
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REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.70b
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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