Explore Collections

You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[6] Preliminary alternative design for the Gallery
Browse
Reference number
SM 65/4/29
Purpose
[6] Preliminary alternative design for the Gallery
Aspect
Front and rear elevations
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot
Signed and dated
- datable to before 4 April 1811
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and sepia wash, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (314 x 540)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This drawing is the first proposal for the new Gallery. In his will, Bourgeois had asked for the refurbishment of the existing gallery on the top floor of the west wing of the College. However Soane actually designed a whole new wing. The building has an eleven-bay front with projecting end bays. The elevations show, in altered forms, an attic storey crowning the central bay with a lunette window, and projecting end bays and entrance porch. There is a Classical treatment to the building with the use of pediments, panelled pilasters, balustrade and antefix but a seventeenth-century character is suggested by the use of tall cross windows with a mullion and a transom.
Literature
G. Waterfield, Soane and after: the architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1987, p. 27.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk