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[2] Alternative interior perspective design for library
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Reference number
SM volume 59/121
Purpose
[2] Alternative interior perspective design for library
Aspect
View of a Design for the Gothic Library at Stowe
Inscribed
as above and The Marquiss of Buckingham
Signed and dated
- 28/01/1805
Lincoln Inns Field Jany 28th 1805
Medium and dimensions
Pen, raw umber, sepia and blue washes, with muti-ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (313 x 488)
Hand
Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809)
Notes
Both designs have three windows and a chimneypiece. Differences (which are not very great) lie in the details of Gothic ornament so that, for example, drawing [2] has the addition of a vertical shrine opposite with the same canopy as the chimneypiece.
The office Day Book (29 January 1805) notes that as well as a plan and section, two 'perspective views' were sent to the Marquis of Buckingham. The drawings catalogued here are likely to be copies of those perspectives.
M.McCarthy's article: 'Soane's 'Saxon' Room at Stowe', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (volume XLIV, May 1985, pp.129-146) states that the second design was preferred.
The office Day Book (29 January 1805) notes that as well as a plan and section, two 'perspective views' were sent to the Marquis of Buckingham. The drawings catalogued here are likely to be copies of those perspectives.
M.McCarthy's article: 'Soane's 'Saxon' Room at Stowe', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (volume XLIV, May 1985, pp.129-146) states that the second design was preferred.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Giving Our Past a Future: The Work of the World Monuments Fund Britain, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 26 October 2012 - 26 January 2013
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk