Design for details of the dome in the Royal Gallery, 6 December 1823

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        Details of designs for the Royal Gallery, 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 / 6^th Dec^r 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.

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.

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Drawing

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