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  • image SM volume 60/85
Drawing. SM volume 60/85. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

Reference number

SM volume 60/85

Purpose

[7] Design for a monument, with a sarcophagus and scrolled acroterion, dated 8 May 1815

Aspect

Elevations of a design

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(Soane) For Lord Bridport

Signed and dated

  • 8 May 1815

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on laid paper (166 x 180)

Hand

Charles Tyrrell (1795-1832, pupil 1811-1816) and Soane

Notes

The verso of this drawing shows developing designs for a monument in the form of a sarcophagus.

In a letter dated 14 May 1815, Lady Bridport thanked Soane for his recent letter enclosing a proposed design, 'which as a drawing I greatly admire, but I am not certain that when executed for the church, it would quite suit my ideas; indeed in this undertaking I wish to be entirely satisfied' (Priv. Corr. XIII.H.28). This drawing shows the design to which she refers. The sarcophagus is surmounted by a feature composed of two S-shaped scrolls, incorporating paterae and foliage and capped by a shell. It shows the acroterion as capped with a palm leaf-ornament.

Brackets have been added to either side of the apron.

Level

Drawing

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

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