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Reference number
SM 65/3/13
Purpose
[6] Alternative design for the temple
Aspect
Elevation
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
(pencil, Soane) Prospect tower
Signed and dated
- Soane
Medium and dimensions
pen and sepia, burnt umber, blue and black washes, watercolour technique, on wash paper (191 x 298)
Hand
Soane
Notes
SM 65/3/9 is a preliminary design for the temple as in SM volume 41/67 verso. Pencil alterations were added to SM 65/3/9 to show a variant design with an additional storey, as developed in SM 65/3/13.
The temple is on a hexagonal plan with Doric projections at three corners. SM 65/3/9 has a round stairwell in the centre. Laying-out lines in pencil are included on the drawing, suggesting its use as a preliminary design.
The pencil alterations to SM 65/3/9 include a straight-stair at the back wall, and apsidal ends on those walls facing the Doric projections. A front stair has been added leading to paired Doric columns, suggesting the removal of the entrance to a door between the paired columns; SM 65/3/13 shows such an adjustment, with a window occupying the large front wall and the Doric columns framing doorways. Also in pencil on SM 65/3/9, and developed in SM 65/3/13, is an additional storey comprised of a circular-plan Ionic peripteral arrangement beneath the domed roof. A figurative statue has been added in pencil to the dome's finial in SM 65/3/9 (as in lecture drawing 14/4/3).
Prov: purchased from Sir John Summerson in 1991
The temple is on a hexagonal plan with Doric projections at three corners. SM 65/3/9 has a round stairwell in the centre. Laying-out lines in pencil are included on the drawing, suggesting its use as a preliminary design.
The pencil alterations to SM 65/3/9 include a straight-stair at the back wall, and apsidal ends on those walls facing the Doric projections. A front stair has been added leading to paired Doric columns, suggesting the removal of the entrance to a door between the paired columns; SM 65/3/13 shows such an adjustment, with a window occupying the large front wall and the Doric columns framing doorways. Also in pencil on SM 65/3/9, and developed in SM 65/3/13, is an additional storey comprised of a circular-plan Ionic peripteral arrangement beneath the domed roof. A figurative statue has been added in pencil to the dome's finial in SM 65/3/9 (as in lecture drawing 14/4/3).
Prov: purchased from Sir John Summerson in 1991
Level
Drawing
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