[55] Preliminary drawing for alternative design with entrance porch facing east

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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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 65/4/24

Purpose

[55] Preliminary drawing for alternative design with entrance porch facing east

Aspect

Perspective of the east front with projecting entrance porch

Signed and dated

datable to early 1812

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, shaded, within a single-ruled sepia wash border on laid paper (278 x 392)

Hand

Soane

Notes

This drawing is consistent with the previous plans. The porch projects from the middle of the east front and mirrors the structure and design of the Mausoleum minus the lantern. Scrolled acroterion decorate the projecting doors, as previously designed for the Mausoleum (see drawings SM 65/4/25, SM 65/4/26, SM 65/4/27, SM 15/2/2 and SM 15/1/4). It is a preliminary sketch design, drawn by Soane, which he then would have explained before handing the drawing over to a pupil to draw up to scale as a finished design.

A perspective of another design for the entrance porch can be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A 3307.108). This design shows the projecting central bay with a lantern above corresponding entirely with the Mausoleum on the west front.

Literature

F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 69 & 186

Level

Drawing

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