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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