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  • image SM volume 62/79

Reference number

SM volume 62/79

Purpose

[4] Record drawing, September 1796

Aspect

Elevation

Scale

to a scale (smaller than SM volume 66/35 and SM volume 66/36)

Inscribed

(Soane) Design for a Mausoleum / The principal Front

Signed and dated

  • (pencil) Smirke and Septr 20th 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia washes, pencil, shaded on laid paper (232 x 368)

Hand

Robert Smirke (1796-7)

Notes

This elevation has a few additions to that of SM volume 66/36. It is now furnished with four alcoves, four niches, eight tablets and four small cinerary urns as well as the pedestals supporting trophies also shown on SM volume 66/36. Presumably, Smirke did this at Soane's direction. Robert Smirke (1780-1867) entered Soane's office in May 1796 but left after a few months 'owing to a mutual antipathy between master and pupil' (H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840, 3rd ed., 1995). Margaret Richardson (note, February 2008) comments that the drawing seems to be in the same hand as SM volume 66/36, hence the attribution.

Level

Drawing

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