Preparatory sketch of the Ante Room to the Royal Gallery

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
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      - Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, 1823-24 (66)
        Designs for a Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, July-August 1823

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Reference number

SM volume 83/66

Purpose

Preparatory sketch of the Ante Room to the Royal Gallery

Aspect

Rough interior perspective View of the Ante-Room to the Royal Gallery House of Lords

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

J Gandy ARA

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and sepia wash within single border on wove paper (352 x 404) pasted in to volume 83, p. 66

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)

Notes

This preparatory sketch might have been made as a study for an unexecuted exhibition drawing. It shows the Royal Gallery to an early, unexecuted design, similar to SM 71/2/73, with heraldic ornaments over the doors, a bracketed cornice, a panelled ceiling with rosettes and an equestrian statue in the centre of the room facing towards the Royal Gallery.

Level

Drawing

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