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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

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

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