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  • image SM volume 60/124

Reference number

SM volume 60/124

Purpose

[141] Record drawing, 1818

Aspect

View of New Buildings at Chelsea Hospital

Inscribed

as above, labelled (Sketch for a Large Drawing)

Signed and dated

  • 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing includes Wren's main hospital buildings in the background and in the foreground, Soane's work: the new Stables, Infirmary and Clerk of Work's house. The view point is shown to be a high perspective, from the Paradise Row side.

Literature

P. Dean, 'The Royal Hospital Chelsea I- Pre-1815' in Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p.66

Level

Drawing

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