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

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

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

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