Survey drawing of the cupola in the Royal Gallery, 1824

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Survey drawing of the cupola in the Royal Gallery, 1824

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, 1823-24 (66)
        Measured drawings for the Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, ?January 1824

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 51/7/6

Purpose

Survey drawing of the cupola in the Royal Gallery, 1824

Aspect

Section through Centre Dome and Lantern Light / Royal Gallery House of Lords; (verso) part plan of the House of Lords with rough sketches of decorative sculpture in the Soane Museum

Inscribed

as above, labelled: (pencil) Level of Floor, B, A, C, (pen) A, D and dimensions given; (verso, pencil) Sir T.T., M^r Lee, New Building, Painted / Chamber and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1824
(pencil) 1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on wove paper (339 x 229)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The verso shows the part of the committee rooms nearest the river. 'Sir T.T.' is Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt (1762-1833), the former MP for Okehampton who served as Black Rod from 1812-32. 'Mr Lee' is Adam Lee (c.1772-1843), Labourer in Trust, some of whose own drawings for the House of Commons' new committee rooms are also in the Soane Museum Collection (SM 51/4/2-8). The verso also has rough drawings of pieces of decorative sculpture that can be found in Sir John Soane's Museum, including a Greek statue of Asclepius. Perhaps these are the doodles of a bored pupil.

Level

Drawing

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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).