Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
labelled: Design for the Ante-Room and Royal Gallery - House of Lords, York Landing (twice), Painted / Chamber, (in Soane's hand) ?Bell and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 15 August 1823
L. I. Fields / August 15th 1823
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, pink, blue, olive green and burnt umber washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper with two modern repairs (554 x 685)
Hand
Soane Office
Notes
This design corresponds with the plan SM 51/2/12. The ante-room has elaborate door and window surrounds. The surround shown in this drawing is reminiscent of a triumphal arch and is topped with a heraldic sculpture. The gallery is divided into three bays. The first and third have shallow-domed or vaulted ceilings with the ceiling springing from Ionic columns. The central bay is topped with a large domed cupola with Corinthian columns. The cupola is shown in a part plan at the top of the drawing. In Soane's hand is another design for the cupola dated '16 Nov 1823' in which the dome is missing.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of
Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and
fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing
process).