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Reference number
SM 67/6/15
Purpose
[1] Design No.2 (15 May 1807)
Aspect
Interior perspective
Inscribed
View of the design NO.2
Signed and dated
- 15/05/1807
Lincolns Inn Fields / May:15 1807
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and yelllow washes, with mutli-ruled border on wove paper with an applied green wash (428 x 315)
Hand
Nothing recorded in the offfice Day Book
Notes
The drawing is dated 15 May 1807, Desenfans died on 8 July 1807 so the project for a mausoleum must have been discussed earlier.
The drawing shows fluted Greek Doric columns without bases, a top-lit domed roof and three steps into a further vaulted space. 'Between the columns and in the apses of the burial chamber are urns in niches and, on the end wall, memorial tablets in the form of Roman cinerary urns. Three sarcophagi wered added to the plan later by Soane'. (T>Drysdale, op.cit.p.120
The drawing shows fluted Greek Doric columns without bases, a top-lit domed roof and three steps into a further vaulted space. 'Between the columns and in the apses of the burial chamber are urns in niches and, on the end wall, memorial tablets in the form of Roman cinerary urns. Three sarcophagi wered added to the plan later by Soane'. (T>Drysdale, op.cit.p.120
Level
drawing
Exhibition history
Soane's Favourite Subject: The Story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 26 May - 30 July 2000
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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