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Design for a proposed new room labelled 'B', July 1822
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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 71/2/66
Purpose
Design for a proposed new room labelled 'B', July 1822
Aspect
(in Soane's hand) View of the ^Great Committee Room marked B taken from the end looking towards the Painted Chamber
Inscribed
as above, labelled: B
Signed and dated
- July 1822
(in Soane's hand) July 1822
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, caput, olive green, yellow, burnt Sienna, blue, sepia and grey washes with multi-ruled caput and black wash border on wove paper (384 x 424)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
James Wha[tman]
Notes
Room 'B' forms part of a 'national monument' to British valour with sculptures and reliefs depicting notable people and events (see SM 71/2/84) and part of the royal processional route towards the Robing Room. It was formerly the chamber of the House of Lords but in Soane's remodelling it has become a top-lit sculpture gallery. Here the lighting is provided by three square-based lanterns in the centre and clerestory windows at the sides of the room. This design was unexecuted, although a Royal Gallery was built later in 1824.
Level
Drawing
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