[99] Progress drawing, July 1812

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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)
    - Site progress drawings, May to September 1812 (23)

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Reference number

SM volume 81/16

Purpose

[99] Progress drawing, July 1812

Aspect

Interior (pencil) view of the Mausoleum at Dulwich

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

(pencil) R C (twice), July 29^th, August 10th 1812

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and coloured washes, watercolour technique, shaded, within a single-ruled black wash border on laid paper (215 x 241)

Hand

Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793-1872, pupil 1807-1814)

Watermark

not visible

Notes

In this drawing, dated 29 July, the carpentry of the dome of the Mausoleum antechamber is complete but it has yet to be plastered. Richard Martyr and Son were also responsible for this, they are recorded as fitting 'spherical brackets to domes of Mausoleum'.

Literature

T. Willmert. 'Heating methods and their impact on Soane's work: Lincoln's Inn Fields and Dulwich Picture Gallery', Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, 52/1, March 1993, p. 55
C. Davies, 'Masters of building: the first independent purpose-built picture gallery: Dulwich Picture Gallery', Architect's Journal, April 1984, pp. 54-55
F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 105 & 192-193

Level

Drawing

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