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Reference number

SM 51/3/50

Purpose

Design for the interior of a new House of Lords, June 1825

Aspect

Interior perspective looking towards the throne

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and blue washes on wove paper (455 x 555)

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)

Notes

This design corresponds to SM 51/3/54, a variant design for the interior of the new House of Lords. In contrast to an earlier interior perspective (SM 51/3/49) the door surrounds have been removed and the design of the throne has changed.

Sawyer writes: "His design is strongly basilical, with colonnades of Corinthian columns framing large clerestory windows, a heavy coffered ceiling, and an apse-like space redolent with the majestic and law-giving associations of an architectural type extending back through the Christian era to the imperial Roman basilicas." (S. Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, pp. 749-50).

Level

Drawing

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

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