[1] Survey drawing of west wing

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  - London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Southwark for the Governors of Dulwich College, 1811-1813 (108)
    - Survey drawings of the old College, early 1811 (5)

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Reference number

SM 65/4/4

Purpose

[1] Survey drawing of west wing

Aspect

Plan of first floor and elevation / section of east front of Dulwich College

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

Feb^y28 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on wove paper (337 x 582)

Hand

George Allen Underwood (1793-1829, pupil 1807-1815) (Day Book entry for 28 February 1811)

Notes

This drawing is the first dated drawing (28 February 1811) from Soane's office for Dulwich, that survives. However Soane's first visit to Dulwich College, after his commission as architect, was on 8 January 1811.

In Bourgeois's will he requested the refurbishment of the existing Gallery on the first floor of the west wing of the College, as shown here. However the wing was in such a decrepit state that the building of an entirely new wing for the Gallery and the demolition of the west wing was proposed.

The seventeenth-century character of the original College building is particularly evident in SM 65/4/3 and SM 65/4/1. The college is a symmetrical building with gables and transomed and mullioned windows, with the panes arranged diagonally in SM 65/4/1.

Literature

F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 12 & 171

Level

Drawing

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