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Reference number

SM volume 61/32

Purpose

Record drawing of the Ante Room to the Royal Gallery

Aspect

Interior perspective looking towards the Scala Regia

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia, green, raw umber, pink and blue washes with raw umber wash border on wove paper (357 x 233), pasted into volume 61

Notes

The Ante Room is an almost square room with scagliola Ionic columns and pilasters supporting heavy, idiosyncratic 'pediments' on all four sides of the room. In the corners are (?bronze) torchères. The ceiling is compartmentalised, ornamented with antefixes and rosettes and supported by brackets.

Level

Drawing

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

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