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Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820): Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, Westminster, 1774
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Drawing. SM 68/5/2. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
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.
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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