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Reference number

SM volume 49/30

Purpose

Rough design for details in the Royal Entrance

Aspect

Details of an overdoor ornament and a pendentive

Inscribed

labelled (pencil): King's Entrance, Dome, Sun, Over the Marble door and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • January 1823
    Jany 1823

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on wove paper (in sketchbook) (275 x 210)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Fellows & Sons 1821

Notes

The inscription "Sun" refers to a decorative roundel based on an ornament on the Arch of Constantine which was a favourite of Soane's. In this instance the roundel is above a door in the small vestibule between the arcade and the Scala Regia. SM XP16 shows the same roundel in a different position, at the base of the Scala Regia.

Level

Drawing

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk