Design for the Royal Gallery, 1823

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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: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, 1823-24 (66)
        Designs for a Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, July-August 1823

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Reference number

SM 71/2/73

Purpose

Design for the Royal Gallery, 1823

Aspect

Sectional perspective - Sketch of a Design for the Royal Gallery forming the approach for His Majesty / to the House of Lords

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

1823
1823

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, light red, yellow, green, blue, caput and sepia washes, shaded, on wove paper (452 x 586)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Weatherley & Lane 1818

Notes

A sectional perspective that shows the same design as in SM 51/2/20. Here the ante-room contains an equestrian statue that points the way into the gallery, a three-bay room with Ionic columns, a clerestory of semi-circular windows and a domed cupola, that was intended for the display of sculptures, paintings and reliefs on the theme of 'British valour' to form a 'national monument'. This drawing gives the clearest view of the ceilings of the first and third bays of the gallery. Together with SM 51/2/12 and SM 51/2/20 these can be seen as consisting of a cross-vault springing from a circular opening formed by pendentives that spring from four Ionic columns. It is an unusual combination of ceiling types that is not replicated anywhere else in Soane's work.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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