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[3] Stage I: tomb with a pendentive dome on four piers enclosing a four-sided Ionic aedicule, 11 February 1816
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Reference number
SM 63/7/26
Purpose
[3] Stage I: tomb with a pendentive dome on four piers enclosing a four-sided Ionic aedicule, 11 February 1816
Aspect
Perspective of tomb, the piers with rusticated piers (smooth blocks, emphasised joints)
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- datable to 11 February 1816 and certainly made before the drawings dated 14 February 1816 that follow see Notes below
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, burnt umber, warm sepia and yellow ochre washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on laid paper (435 x 370)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and PS below
Notes
C. Woodward in M. Richardson and M. Stevens (editors), John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, p.198, dates this drawing to the afternoon of Sunday 11 February 1815. Soane's Note Book entry for that date has '... At home the rest of the day about Monument &c'.
This drawing and drawing SM 63/7/27 establish the basic form of the monument which is a monolithic pendentive or canopy dome with four segmental openings (pediments) supported at each corner by a pier. This canopy encloses a four-sided aedicule in the form of a double cube, crowned on each face by a triangular pediment finished at each end by a scroll, and with four Ionic colums (one at each corner). The drawings differ only in the treatment of the piers - rusticated or (the preferred treatment) panelled. Both have a sketchy indication of an oculus to the dome.
This drawing and drawing SM 63/7/27 establish the basic form of the monument which is a monolithic pendentive or canopy dome with four segmental openings (pediments) supported at each corner by a pier. This canopy encloses a four-sided aedicule in the form of a double cube, crowned on each face by a triangular pediment finished at each end by a scroll, and with four Ionic colums (one at each corner). The drawings differ only in the treatment of the piers - rusticated or (the preferred treatment) panelled. Both have a sketchy indication of an oculus to the dome.
Level
Drawing
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