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Reference number

SM 63/7/21

Purpose

[15] Stage IV: entrance gateway to the vault, enclosing walls and balustrade, 28 February 1816, 2 March 1816

Aspect

Perspectives from different viewpoints of the same design for the canopy and aedicule with its enclosure and square-headed entrance with heavy lintel crowned by an acroterion.

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • (pencil) 2d March 1816

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, blue and warm sepia washes, some watercolour technique on laid paper (373 x 535 average)

Hand

George Basevi (1794-1845, pupil 1810-16)

Watermark

Phipps & Son 1809

Notes

The office Day Book entry for 28 February 1816 has Basevi, Tyrrell and Parke 'Drawing view/designs for a Monument'. The entry for Saturday 2 March has Basevi 'Finishing drawing of Monument and making two slight sketches for another drawing' while Parke was 'Drawing various designs for a Monument'.

Stage IV of the design for the Soane monument shows the monument raised on a plinth and with enclosing walls that were to become more elaborate in Stage V. An important element of Stage IV is the proposal for a gateway to the sunken area or pit in front of the vault, on the west side. Whether this was intended to have a stair or had a stair that has since been removed, is not known (see SM 63/7/19, SM 63/7/17, SM 63/7/16, SM 63/7/18). In execution, the gateway was omitted.

Level

Drawing

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

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