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Reference number

SM volume 57/30

Purpose

[1] Plan and south wall elevation/section, April/May 1787

Aspect

Section No 1 : plan and south wall elevation/section of a long, narrow barrel-vaulted gallery on an east-west axis, top-lit by three skylights on domes (the centre one elliptical). The wall is articulated by four doors plus two areas of wall that are both to receive sunk panels (for coloured prints of Raphael's arabesques from the Vatican loggie), together with two pairs of Ionic columns and a chimneypiece with glass (mirror). The bar scale indicates a length of approximately 59 feet and a width of eight feet, and the plan is marked for five doors (one is opposite the chimneypiece) so that the remaining four (of nine) are false.

Scale

feint (pricked and pencil) bar scale of 1/8 inch to one foot

Inscribed

as above, Center is left plain to contrast / with the richness of each end / & side, At the [west] End next [to] Alcove on a Pedestal an Apollo [statue], I.I.I.(inscribed on panels), I.I.I. The drawings in / Sunk Pannells, Over the Column, Antique Lion / Vases of Etruria &c, Apollo, door (three times), door / to Great Stair, door with Library, door / to blue Stair and (pencil) calculations relating to measurements so that, for example there is a total of 58 3 3/5 and another of 58.1 (length of the gallery ?)

Signed and dated

  • April 1787 - May 1787
    datable to April/May 1787 (see Notes in group folder)

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid paper (187 x 295) Drawings 1-6 are on the same type of thin laid paper, each with three or four fold marks. All of the drawings are pasted into an album with (blue) sugar paper leaves (volume 57)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

not available (affixed at corners and edges)

Literature

For further reading see J. Lever, 'The Soane-Dance collaboration, 1771-1799', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 53, pp.163-190

Level

Drawing

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