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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
Volume 42/72
Purpose
Preliminary ? record drawing
Aspect
Rough internal wall elevation and elevations of pedimented doorways and (unrelated ?) semicircular windows showing decorative treatment that includes peacocks, chimera, winged figure, half-figure, putto, sphinx, festoons and swags. Small feint pencil elevations of two-storey, three-bay pedimented building or part of a building, and four-column ? portico
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on laid paper, crumpled and torn and with several fold marks (281 x 199)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
n/a pasted down
Notes
Presumably an initial record of a room interior in ? Italy that was evidently torn, screwed up, thrown away and then rescued. The wall elevation/section has an alcove with a statue of Hercules flanked by frames for paintings.
Level
Drawing
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