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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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