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Design for the interior of a new House of Lords, 13 June 1825
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 51/3/52
Purpose
Design for the interior of a new House of Lords, 13 June 1825
Aspect
Section through the new House of Lords looking east
Scale
bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
(pencil) dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 13 June 1825
13/6/25
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, sepia and pink washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on wove paper (554 x 732)
Hand
Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)
Notes
The House of Lords is narrower here than in SM 51/3/47 but slightly less than three feet taller and has a coved ceiling. Otherwise the ornamentation is the same as in the earlier design with, for example, winged victories (derived from Napoleonic influences) above the throne (S. Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, p. 750). The eight pencil circles above the section relate to the eight columns of the portico facing the river.
Level
Drawing
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