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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 51/3/59
Purpose
Design for the galleries (unexecuted)
Aspect
Plan of the Gallery
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): Design No 2
Signed and dated
- 25 July 1820
25th July 1820
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, grey and pink washes, pricked for transfer with double ruled and grey wash border on wove paper (482 x 311)
Hand
Charles Edward Papendiek (1801 - 1835)
Pupil January 1818 - March 1824.
Pupil January 1818 - March 1824.
Notes
SM 51/3/59 corresponds with 'Design No 2' (SM 51/3/57), with the staircases to the western gallery leading from the centre of the benches.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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