[13] Presentation drawing for alternative design No 2 for the College on an H-plan

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Southwark for the Governors of Dulwich College, 1811-1813 (108)
    - Five alternative preliminary designs, April to May 1811 (16)

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Reference number

SM 65/4/10

Purpose

[13] Presentation drawing for alternative design N^o2 for the College on an H-plan

Aspect

Bird's eye view for Design N^o 2

Inscribed

as above, N^o IIII, Dulwich College, Gallery, Tower, Chapel, Porch

Signed and dated

(Soane) Lincolns Inn Fields / 17 April 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes, watercolour technique, shaded, partly pricked for transfer, within a six-ruled pen and sepia and black wash border on wove paper (324 x 468)

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil and Soane office assistant 1806-1837, curator 1837-1860) (Day Book entry for 17 April 1811)

Notes

In this 'H' plan design, the Gallery is sited in the 'cross-bar' of the H between the remodelled chapel building on the north and the new wing on the south. It is a two-storey building with the Gallery on the first floor above an arcade. The Mausoleum is not clearly visible.

For a development of this plan see SM 65/4/42.

Literature

G. Waterfield, Soane and after: the architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1987, pp. 28;
F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 23 & 174-175

Level

Drawing

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