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Design for part of the ceiling of the Scala Regia, 24 August 1822
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Reference number
SM 71/2/54
Purpose
Design for part of the ceiling of the Scala Regia, 24 August 1822
Aspect
Detail of Part of the Ceiling of the Scala Regia
Scale
(Full size)
Inscribed
as above, labelled: House of Lords
Signed and dated
- 24 August 1822
24th August 1822
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on wove paper (728 x 521)
Hand
George Bailey (1792 - 1860)
Pupil and assistant August 1806 - January 1837.
Pupil and assistant August 1806 - January 1837.
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt 1817
Notes
SM 71/2/54 is a full size drawing for the barrel-vaulted first bay of the Scala Regia. The vault is coffered and the coffers are lined with ball mouldings and spaced with small rosettes, a feature that Sean Sawyer quite rightly observes derives from the Arch of Septimius Severus (Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, p. 408). A line of pink wash shows the depth of the recessions.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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