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Design for details of the dome in the Royal Gallery, 6 December 1823
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Reference number
SM 51/2/33
Purpose
Design for details of the dome in the Royal Gallery, 6 December 1823
Aspect
Detail of Mouldings &c round the opening of Centre Dome
Scale
(Full Size)
Inscribed
as above, labelled: House of Lords - Royal Gallery, See the Original Marble in L.I.F., Floor
Signed and dated
- 6 December 1823
Lincolns Inn Fields / 6th Decr 1823
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink and sepia washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on wove paper (733 x 530)
Hand
David Alfred Mocatta (1806 - 1882)
Pupil March 1821 - February 1827.
Pupil March 1821 - February 1827.
Notes
Shown in this drawing are the heavily reeded roll mouldings around the inside of the opening of the dome in the central bay of the Royal Gallery. The 'original marble in L.I.F.' might be S59, a fragment of the top member of an architrave with reversed acanthus leaves, displayed in Soane's Little Study.
Level
Drawing
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