[120-123] Record drawings of interior perspectives (4)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: official (mostly domeless) designs, July 1794 - February 1795 (134)

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Reference number

SM (120) volume 62/13 (121) volume 62/34 verso (122) volume 62/35 (123) volume 62/36

Purpose

[120-123] Record drawings of interior perspectives (4)

Aspect

120 Reduced copies of drawings 102 and 104
121 Reduced copy of drawing 47 (Domed designs series) without staffage
122 Reduced copy of drawing 53 (Domed designs series) without staffage
123 Reduced copy of drawing 57 (Domed designs series) without staffage

Inscribed

(120) The House of Lords / View of the Great Hall and The House of Lords / View of the King's Entrance
(121) (pencil,added later) Conference Room / House of Lords
(122) (pencil, added later) Court of Requests / House of Lords
(123) (pencil, added later on page) Scalia Regia / House of Lords

Medium and dimensions

(120) Pen and sepia wash, shaded, on two sheets of thin wove paper folded at top and bottom and overlapping (229 X 406), p. 13 of volume 62 (121) pen and sepia wash, shaded on thin laid paper (435 x 270), p. 34 verso of volume 62 (122) pen and sepia wash, shaded on thin laid paper (404 x 260), p. 35 of volume 62 (123) pen and sepia wash, shaded on thin wove paper (416 x 270), p. 36 of volume 62

Hand

(120-123) Henry Provis (1760-1830, clerk July 1791-February 1802)

Watermark

(120) IV (121, 122) Allee 1799 (123) Allee 1799, post horn wihin crowned cartouche and below, GR

Notes

Record drawing 120 copies two interior perspectives that (it is assumed) were made in the period from June 1794 to February 1795 when Soane and his office were producing a great many designs for the House of Lords committee. Six interior perspectives (drawings 102 to 107) have survived, none of them of the quality of those made a few years later by J. M. Gandy. The same views seen in drawing 120 were later copied by another pupil (see drawings 130, 131). Record drawings 121, 122 and 123 reproduce drawings made by J. M. Gandy, c.1800, for which see Domed designs 47, 53 and 57.

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