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Reference number

SM volume 12/15

Purpose

[2] Design

Aspect

Perspective showing the final design with an urn on top (not executed) and surrounded on three sides by an iron railing

Signed and dated

  • signed, J Soane Archt Margaret Street

Medium and dimensions

Pen and green, sepia and blue washes, watercolour technique

Hand

Soane

Literature

M.Hall, 'Contemplating Paradise: restoration by the Soane Monuments Trust of the tomb Soane designed in 1784 ...', Country Life, 5 January 1995, pp.38-9; M.Hall, 'Mending monuments', Country Life, 14 June 1990, p.302; D.Stroud, Sir John Soane architect , 2nd ed., 1996, pp.57, 243, 280; G.Waterfield ed., Soane and Death, 1996, pp.32, 83-4; Survey of London, Northern Kensington,volume XXXVII, p.35

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.


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