[44] Presentation drawing for approved plan

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  - London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Southwark for the Governors of Dulwich College, 1811-1813 (108)
    - Revisions to the approved design, 12 July to 19 October 1811 (14)

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Reference number

SM 65/4/32

Purpose

[44] Presentation drawing for approved plan

Aspect

Plan for upper storey of the Gallery

Scale

to the same scale but no bar scale or dimensions given

Inscribed

Dulwich College

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / August 7 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, raw umber and rose pink washes, pricked for transfer, within an eight-ruled pen and sepia and black wash border on wove paper (319 x 515)

Hand

Charles Tyrrell (1795-1832, pupil 1811-1816) (recorded drawing plans of Dulwich in the Day Book entry for 7 August 1811)

Watermark

J Whatman 1808

Notes

SM 65/4/32 puts the approved plan for the new two-storey Gallery and almshouse wing in the wider context of the whole College quadrangle. This drawing shows the two-storey almshouse end bays, and the Gallery with the skylights situated on the first floor above the arcade, similarly to SM 65/4/33.

Literature

F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 56 & 184

Level

Drawing

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