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Drawing. SM 68/5/2. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
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Reference number

SM 68/5/2

Purpose

Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820): Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, Westminster, 1774

Aspect

[1] Plan

Scale

(Dance) 1/6 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

dimensions given Signed (brown pen) Clérisseau Dated: (brown pen) 1774

Signed and dated

  • 1774

Medium and dimensions

Black and brown pen, black, pink and sepia wash on laid paper (380 x 470)

Hand

Clérisseau, Dance

Watermark

J Whatman and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and GR below

Notes

Both this and the following drawing have 'Clérisseau 1774' in a brown pen on the bottom right-hand corner. Comparison with other signed drawings (reproduced in Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820): Dessins du musée l'Ermitage Saint-Pétersbourg, catalogue of an exhibition at The Louvre, Paris, 1995) seem to confirm that these are signatures rather than later inscriptions.

The plan shows a long room sub-divided into three by two Corinthian screens and with the end compartments square rather than octagonal as in Robert Adam's plan. There are no window openings shown.

REPRODUCED. T. J. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the genesis of Neo-Classicism, New York, 1990, fig.129.

Level

Drawing

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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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