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[21] Finished perspective (relating to Stage IV) made by J.M.Gandy for exhibition at the Royal Academy, before 6 April 1816
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Reference number
SM [F83] P201
Purpose
[21] Finished perspective (relating to Stage IV) made by J.M.Gandy for exhibition at the Royal Academy, before 6 April 1816
Aspect
Elevated perspective from the south-west set in an imaginary wooded site; a single diminutive male figure, seated on a rock, holds a book before him. The design of the tomb varies from drawing SM 14/4/8 by, for example, altering the entrance so that piers and lintel have gone and as compensation more emphatic pedestals are now crowned by acroteria
Signed and dated
- datable to before 6 April 1816. see Notes below
Medium and dimensions
Not available, framed, hung on north wall of Breakfast Parlour of 13 Lincoln's Fields (Soane Museum)
Hand
Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843)
Notes
The design shown in Gandy's finished perspective (drawing SM 14/4/8) was altered in execution by the omission of the entrance doorway and by the elaboration of the enclosing parapet wall. Details such as the skeleton with arrow, the pomegranates and Soane's coat of arms were not carried out. The effect of the drawing is that of the tomb discovered in a solitary, unvisited and heavily wooded spot in which self-seeded sapling trees and shrubs add to the air of tragic neglect. This drawing is very close to the executed design though, for example, the figures (of saints?) in the recessed dice close to the tomb were not carried out.
Soane's office Day Book has an entry for 4 April 1816: 'Altering drawing of Monument and Mounting Mr Gandy's' signed by Basevi and again on 5 April 'About drawings of Monument, sent afterwards to the Exhibition'. Soane's Note Book for 26 April 1816 has an entry 'Private View of Exhib: but I cannot go! Alas poor Eliza, you always went thither on this day!'.
Soane exhibited two drawings of the monument at the Royal Academy (R.A. exhibition Nos 799 and 810) and it is assumed that these were drawings SM 14/4/8 and this drawing
Soane's office Day Book has an entry for 4 April 1816: 'Altering drawing of Monument and Mounting Mr Gandy's' signed by Basevi and again on 5 April 'About drawings of Monument, sent afterwards to the Exhibition'. Soane's Note Book for 26 April 1816 has an entry 'Private View of Exhib: but I cannot go! Alas poor Eliza, you always went thither on this day!'.
Soane exhibited two drawings of the monument at the Royal Academy (R.A. exhibition Nos 799 and 810) and it is assumed that these were drawings SM 14/4/8 and this drawing
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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