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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 71/2/67
Purpose
Design for a Royal Gallery, December 1822
Aspect
Perspective View of a Design for the Great Committee Room marked B / House of Lords
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- December 1822
Lincolns Inn Fields / December 1822
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, sepia, blue, pink and yellow washes, shaded, with multi-ruled caput and black wash border on wove paper (383 x 383)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
J Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1818
Notes
The Committee Room is 'marked B' on SM 71/2/84, a design for the Royal Entrance dated 'July 1822'. It is clear that this drawing corresponds to the earlier design for the Royal Entrance with its colonnades, niches for statuary, skylights and columned entrances despite the substantial gap between their dates. A similar design is SM 71/2/66, also dated 'July 1822'. Both of these designs relate to substantial interior alterations to existing parts of the building as initially envisaged by Soane. Later designs show Soane's intention to entirely rebuild this area. The room shown in this drawing was intended as one of three galleries supposed to create a 'National Monument' with statues and paintings conveying a sense of British valour. The Royal Gallery was executed in 1824 to a different design.
Level
Drawing
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