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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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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