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Drawing. SM volume 68/26. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
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Reference number

SM volume 68/26

Purpose

[1] Variant design

Aspect

Encircled elevation of a screen with four Ionic columns and an alcove with a sculptured figure (Naiad with a pitcher and swan ?) on a pedestal. The entablature supports the royal arms flanked by cornucopia. The frieze inscribed Grand Junction Canal Company, architrave inscribed Aeque Pauperious Prodest locupletius , four recessed tablets bear the words: Liberality, Agriculture, Commerce and Justice, the plinth is inscribed: This Chosen Infant ------- Upon this Land, a thousand blessings / Though in the Cradle yet new promises which time shall bring to ripeness / MDCCXCXIII

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • August 1793
    John Soane Archt and Great Scotland Yard August 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil with triple-ruled pen and black wash border on laid paper (219 x 264)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

n/a

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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