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[93] Progress drawing, July 1812
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Reference number
SM volume 81/12
Purpose
[93] Progress drawing, July 1812
Aspect
Perspective of west front
Signed and dated
- July 6 1812
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and coloured washes, watercolour technique, shaded, within a single-ruled black wash border on laid paper (214 x 378)
Hand
George Basevi or Charles Tyrrell (both pupils recorded in the Day Book entry for 6 July 1812)
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, GJ
Notes
The outer shell of the Mausoleum was completed by the beginning of July, while the rest of the west front was still under construction, as can be seen from this drawing dated 6 July. An enlarged version of the drawing was made by a pupil as an illustration for Soane's twelfth Royal Academy lecture from the second series about construction on 12 March 1815 (SM 15/2/10). It is an almost identical view of the west front under construction but drawn in greater detail and shows the Mausoleum lantern with the amber glass fitted. Another similar version of this particular view was also drawn for the lecture but shows an earlier stage of construction with the Mausoleum lantern unbuilt and the Gallery walls incomplete (SM 15/2/08).
Literature
F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 100 & 192
Level
Drawing
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