[2] Alternative rough design by Soane in mixed Egyptian and mixed 'Moresque' styles

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane's architectural education including theoretical designs made for the Royal Academy Schools and for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1770-80, and in Italy, 1778-80
    - Rough preliminary designs, some attributed to George Dance, and design 'for a Mausoleum to the Memory of James King drowned June 9. 1776' , 1776-7, with J.M.Gandy perspectives, 1799-1800 (19)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/90

Purpose

[2] Alternative rough design by Soane in mixed Egyptian and mixed 'Moresque' styles

Aspect

Sketch elevation of a domed building with round arched entrance and lunette niches fronted by a double stair and with pavilions each with an obelisk

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, shaded on laid secretary paper (195 x 260)

Hand

Soane

Notes

The drawing introduces some elements such as the round-arched entrance and niches, rusticated base and semicircular dome found in a record drawing of the final design (SM volume 66/33). du Prey (op.cit.) describes the overall design as 'looking like a funereal version of [Soane's] 'Moorish Dairy' ('Elevation of a Dairy House in the Moresque Stile', plate xxxiii, published Soan(e), Designs in architecture ..., 1778).

Literature

P. du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.98-9

Level

Drawing

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