Record drawing of a corner of the Ante Room to the Royal Gallery

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - 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)
        Record drawings of the alterations to the House of Lords

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Reference number

SM volume 61/34

Purpose

Record drawing of a corner of the Ante Room to the Royal Gallery

Aspect

Interior perspective looking towards the top landing of the Scala Regia with staffage

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, sepia, green, pink and blue washes with raw umber wash border on wove paper (359 x 255), pasted into volume 61

Notes

In the north west corner of the Ante Room the torchère stands beneath a tall round-headed arch that is open to the vestibule on the north side of the landing, at the top of the Scala Regia. From the Scala Regia the arch and torchère composition would have provided a picturesque view into the Ante Room (S. Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, p. 435 n. 1294). The vestibule has a groin-vaulted ceiling and an apsidal end. This configuration is mirrored in the south west corner of the Ante Room.

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Drawing

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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.

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