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