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[6] Elevations/sections of north and south walls and plan, April/May 1787
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Reference number
SM volume 57/34
Purpose
[6] Elevations/sections of north and south walls and plan, April/May 1787
Aspect
Section No 3: elevations/sections of north and south walls and plan as in drawing 5 but with more attention to the picture hanging; (pencil) additions include: detail of Ionic column labelled Impost and elevation of columnar screen.
Scale
1/7 of an inch to one foot approximately
Inscribed
as above, View of Gall[ery], Best Staircase, Blue Staircase, Apollo, Skylight (twice), Dentil / cornice / antique / Ionic, some dimensions given and calculations
Signed and dated
- April 1787 - May 1787
datable to April/May 1787 (see notes in group folder)
Medium and dimensions
bown pen and pencil on laid paper (349 x 297)
Drawings 1-6 are on the same type of thin laid paper, each with three or four fold marks. All of the drawings are pasted into an album with (blue) sugar paper leaves (volume 57)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane
Soane
Watermark
not available (affixed at corners and edges)
Literature
For further reading see J. Lever, 'The Soane-Dance collaboration, 1771-1799', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 53, pp.163-190
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Palaces of Art: Art Galleries in Britain 1790-1990, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 27 November 1991 - 1 March 1992; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 12 March - 3 May 1992
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk