[53] Working drawing for Gallery with additional projecting entrance porch facing east

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  - London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Southwark for the Governors of Dulwich College, 1811-1813 (108)
    - Alternative designs for an entrance porch on the east front, October 1811 to April 1812 (5)

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Reference number

SM 65/4/61

Purpose

[53] Working drawing for Gallery with additional projecting entrance porch facing east

Aspect

Enlarged ground floor plan for south half of the Gallery and (verso, pencil) rough elevation of antefix

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Altar (twice), Mausoleum, Chapel, Sarcophagus (three times), Picture Gallery, Arcade, some calculations and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(Soane) Dulwich College / 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and rose pink wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper (480 x 690)

Hand

Soane office with pencil additions by Soane

Notes

Although this drawing is dated 1811, it is probable that the added square of paper on the bottom left was added at a later date, perhaps late 1811 or early 1812. This addition to the drawing shows the plan for the new east entrance porch, following the decision to move the Mausoleum to the west after a meeting at the College on 15 November 1811. A structure projecting from the centre of the building is designed on the east facade echoing the structure of the Mausoleum opposite on the west side. However the entrance porch is slightly wider. Around the plan of the Mausoleum Soane has sketched-in additional sarcophagi and altars.

Literature

F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 67 & 186

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Drawing

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