[92] Progress drawing, June 1812

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  - London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Southwark for the Governors of Dulwich College, 1811-1813 (108)
    - Site progress drawings, May to September 1812 (23)

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Reference number

SM volume 81/9

Purpose

[92] Progress drawing, June 1812

Aspect

Interior perspective of Gallery

Inscribed

(verso, pencil) Not to be used

Signed and dated

June 29^th 1812

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and coloured washes, watercolour technique, shaded, within a single-ruled black wash border on laid paper (202 x 257)

Hand

George Basevi or Robert Dennis Chantrell (Day Book entry for 29 June 1812)

Watermark

G Jones 1809

Notes

This drawing shows a view of the central Gallery room with the arch on the left leading to the Mausoleum and the arch on the right as part of the Gallery enfilade. The roof carpentry is visible. Pupils were sent to the site in pairs, so Chantrell and Basevi would have gone together on 3 and 29 June. An enlarged version of this drawing was drawn by a pupil as an illustration for Soane's twelfth Royal Academy lecture from the second series about construction on 12 March 1815 (SM 15/2/09). The drawing is of an almost identical view through the enfilade at the same stage of construction but reveals more of the roof carpentry and is drawn in greater detail.

Literature

F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 98 & 192

Level

Drawing

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