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  • image SM 63/7/27

Reference number

SM 63/7/27

Purpose

[4] Stage I: tomb with a pendentive dome on four piers enclosing a four-sided Ionic aedicule, 11 February 1816

Aspect

Perspective of tomb, the piers with panel pilasters

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • datable to 11 February 1816 and certainly made before the drawings dated 14 February 1816 that follow see Notes below

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, warm sepia and burnt umber washes, shaded on laid paper (534 x 369)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

Phipps & Son 1809

Notes

Drawings SM 63/7/26 and SM 63/7/27 establish the basic form of the monument which is a monolithic pendentive or canopy dome with four segmental openings (pediments) supported at each corner by a pier. This canopy encloses a four-sided aedicule in the form of a double cube, crowned on each face by a triangular pediment finished at each end by a scroll, and with four Ionic colums (one at each corner). The drawings differ only in the treatment of the piers - rusticated or (the preferred treatment) panelled. Both have a sketchy indication of an oculus to the dome.

Level

Drawing

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