[13] Late design, 1794 or after

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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
    - Preliminary, early, intermediate and late designs, copies, perspectives by J.M.Gandy and R.A. exhibition drawing, 1778-1799, for the so-called 'Chatham mausoleum' for the Earl of Chatham died 11 May 1778 (15)

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Reference number

SM 45/1/23

Purpose

[13] Late design, 1794 or after

Aspect

Ground plan with some amendments

Scale

bar scale of 1/16in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given including (of domed hall) 62':0" Diam^rand (pencil) calculations

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, pencil within quadruple ruled and wash border on laid paper (706 x 500)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

I Taylor, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with 1794 below

Notes

Dance's sketch designs (SM volume 42/172 verso) have a trefoil building within a trefoil terrace; and a circle on a square with three apses within a trefoil terrace, Soane's sketch design (SM 42/122 recto) has a trefoil plan. The published plan, in Sketches in architecture ... 1793 (plates xxxviii-xxxix), took the first design stretching the apse opposite the entrance to 35 feet long and balancing it with a terrace on the same plan. The whole structure was enclosed within an oval walled terrace with segmental stairs at each end. The fourth plan (this drawing) elongated the 35 foot long apse to 65 feet giving a phallic form to the plan of the building that is now enclosed by terraces on an elongated trefoil (or assymetrical quatrefoil) plan incorporating a wall with niches, stairs and four pyramids 32:6 square. And is essentially the plan published in Soane's Designs public and private, 1832, plate xxxiv. Almost every part of the plan is compass-drawn.

In this drawing, Soane has added (in pencil) Roman-style cinerary urns on each corner of the pyramids; corresponding with another twelve ranged around the terrace, and places pedestals for statues against the building. Thus this plan relates to the later and more elaborate design recorded by SM volume 66/40 and SM P98.

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Drawing

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