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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 71/2/70
Purpose
Design for a Royal Gallery, 1822
Aspect
Perspective Sketch of a Design for the proposed New Royal Gallery
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- 1822
1822
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, sepia, yellow and blue washes, shaded, with single ruled caput wash border on wove paper (350 x 265)
Hand
Soane Office
Notes
One of three designs for the Royal Gallery, SM 71/2/70 corresponds to a plan and laid-out wall elevations on the verso of SM 71/2/41 (q.v.). In this drawing the gallery is divided into three bays. The final bay has two colonnades of Corinthian columns and further columns on either side of the entrance. Above this bay is a coffered barrel vault, in the arches of which are large lunette windows, and behind the colonnades on either side of the room is a clerestory or skylights. Unusually, the barrel vault is positioned perpendicular to the central bay, which has a scalloped shallow dome with a central rosette and winged figures in the pendentives. The statuary in this instance stand in niches on either side of the room, behind the colonnades. The Royal Gallery was executed to a completely new design in 1824.
Level
Drawing
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