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Reference number

SM volume 60/186

Purpose

[12] Imaginative reconstruction drawing of an intermediate design made by J.M.Gandy, 1798-1799

Aspect

Preparatory perspective after Soane's intermediate design as SM volume 60/184, but showing the entrance front and the entire flank of the building, set in a mountainous landscape with the Parthenon in the middle distance

Inscribed

(pen, George Bailey, curator 1837-60) Sketch of a Design for a Mausoleum

Signed and dated

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Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia, green, blue, yellow ochre and light violet washes, watercolour technique, shaded on laid paper (328 x 507)

Hand

J.M.Gandy (1771-1843)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below

Notes

Gandy began working as an assistant in Soane's office in 1798 and left in 1801.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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