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  • image SM volume 60/189

Reference number

SM volume 60/189

Purpose

[45] Drawing of the monument made in preparation for engraving by C. J. Richardson and J. M. Gandy, 18 January 1828

Aspect

View from south-west with shrubs and trees in the planting compartments that partly obscure the canopy and four-sided aedicule

Inscribed

(feint pencil) continued / -- (illegible)

Signed and dated

  • Jany 18 1827 (in fact, 1828)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on wove paper (249 x 174)

Hand

Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-37)

Watermark

(45) C Ansett 1821

Notes

The office Day Book has an entry dated 19 January 1828: 'Making a sketch of the Domus Aeterna in the burying ground near St Pancras Church / Richardson'.

In 1828 Soane published a resumé of his career, Designs for public and private buildings, that concluded with a 'Plan of the Monument' as shown on SM volume 60/101 and a view from the west without the trees and shrubs shown in 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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