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46 Sketch of the "Barberini Candelabrum"
47 Finished interior perspective of the principal entrance
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(46) as above
(47) Principal entrance new House of Lords (Sir. J. Soane 1794), Part of the building proposed for the new House of Lords / this view was made from the drawings designed in obedience to an order of a committee of / the House of Lords and officially submitted and honored with the approbation of His Majesty. // It was originally suggested to finish the whole of the interior of this building in the stile of the ancient architec / ture of England and some progress was accordingly made but the idea was relinquished cheifly (sic) in consideration / of the unfitness of that manner of building to the purposes of public speaking and the enormous expence / that would have attended the execution of the design
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- (45) June 10th 1800
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The Barberine candelabrum (drawing 52) would have appealed to Soane as well as to Gandy. Soane visited the Palazzo Barberini when in Rome (see Soane's sketchbook 39, p.63 verso).
Literature. S.Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, pp.225 (drawing 47)
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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