Design for part of the ceiling of the Scala Regia, 24 August 1822

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        Designs for the ceiling of the Scala Regia, 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
24^th 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.

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

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