[81] Pitt Cenotaph: further alternative design together with drawing made for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1819

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  - London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100)

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Reference number

SM P401

Purpose

[81] Pitt Cenotaph: further alternative design together with drawing made for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1819

Aspect

Perspectival section of the Cenotaph exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

datable to 1819

Medium and dimensions

Framed, not available (June 2013)

Hand

Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-1820)

Notes

This drawing is a perspectival section that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819 (RA No. 1034).

The dome with lantern is the same as in SM 48/1/11 (though better drawn) and the other storeys seem to correspond though SM 48/1/11 is without the Greek key mouldings of the middle floor shown here.

The drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy under the title: 'A Cenotaph now building, to the memory of the late Right Hon. William Pitt, etc.'. 'Now building' (that is, in 1819) was true of the National Debt Redemption Office but not the case for the Pitt Cenotaph, which was opened in 1823.

For another drawing of the Pitt Cenotaph exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1823 see SM P79.

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Drawing

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