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  • image SM 68/5/3
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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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