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  • image SM volume 61/25

Reference number

SM volume 61/25

Purpose

Design for a new Royal Entrance, February 1822

Aspect

Perspective from Old Palace Yard

Signed and dated

  • February 1822
    Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 1822

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia, raw Sienna, blue, black and caput washes, shaded, with multi-ruled caput wash border on wove paper (326 x 400), pasted into volume 61

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The new Royal Entrance was designed by Soane in a Gothic style with battlements, pinnacles, buttresses and Tudor arches. In this version of the design, the arches are open and have railings. The House of Lords had been re-faced in a much-criticised Gothic style by James Wyatt between 1800 and 1812 and can be seen behind the arcade.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk