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Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820): Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, Westminster, 1774
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Drawing. SM 68/5/3. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
Reference number
SM 68/5/3
Purpose
Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820): Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, Westminster, 1774
Aspect
[2] Two cross-sections
Scale
(Dance) 1/3 in to 1 ft approximately
Inscribed
vertical dimensions given, for example, columns are 21 P 90
Signed: (brown pen) Clerisseau
Dated: (brown pen) 1774
Signed and dated
- 1774
Medium and dimensions
Black and brown pen, sepia and pink washes within single-ruled border on laid paper (430 x 725)
Hand
Clérisseau, Dance, unidentified
Notes
The sections are drawn through the centre of a domed end compartment lit by an octagonal lantern, and in front of one of the two Corinthian screens showing a clerestory with three windows. The library is thus generously top-lit and there is an elevated gallery, allowing for a great number of bookshelves.
REPRODUCED. D. Stillman, 'The Gallery for Lansdowne House', Art Bulletin, L.II, 1970, fig.6; T. J. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the genesis of Neo-Classicism, New York, 1990, fig.130.
REPRODUCED. D. Stillman, 'The Gallery for Lansdowne House', Art Bulletin, L.II, 1970, fig.6; T. J. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the genesis of Neo-Classicism, New York, 1990, fig.130.
Level
Drawing
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