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Reference number

SM 51/2/15

Purpose

Design for the ceiling of the Ante-Room, 6 December 1823

Aspect

Plan & Section of the / Ciel (sic) in the Room / next the Kings Staircase with details of the ceiling in section and part plan of a door surround

Scale

bar scale of 5/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled (in Soane's hand): House of Lords, Section on the EF (sic), C, E, A, Section on the line CD, D, Section on the line AB, B, F, (office hand) G Full Size, G and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 6 December 1823
    (in Soane's hand) 6 Decr 1823

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and sepia washes, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (368 x 539)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The Ante-Room has a compartmentalised ceiling, a sectional detail of which is shown on the left hand side of the drawing. This has a scrolled bracket, a coved 'frieze', a pendant, egg and dart moulding and ogee moulding shown full size to the right of the drawing. Above this is a part plan of the door surrounds. The orientation of the ceiling decoration helped to emphasise the north-south axis of the Ante-Room (S. Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, p. 438).

Level

Drawing

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

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