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  • image SM volume 81/6

Reference number

SM volume 81/6

Purpose

[90] Progress drawing, June 1812

Aspect

View of the Mausoleum and part of the Picture Gallery at Dulwich College

Signed and dated

  • Taken Thursday June the 18th and, R.C Finished June 19th 1812

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and coloured washes, watercolour technique, shaded, within a single-ruled black wash border on laid paper (232 x 342)

Hand

Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793-1872, pupil 1807-1814)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, GJ

Notes

This drawing dated 18 June shows the sarcophagi added to the Mausoleum. The second-storey of the almshouses was also under construction at this stage.

Literature

F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 96 & 191

Level

Drawing

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

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