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Surveys of the room under the Painted Chamber and Guy Fawkes' Tower, 29 March 1827
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Reference number
SM volume 50/1-2
Purpose
Surveys of the room under the Painted Chamber and Guy Fawkes' Tower, 29 March 1827
Aspect
Plan and View of / Room under the / Painted Chamber and View of Guy Fawkes' Tower
Inscribed
as above, About / six / or / seven / feet and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 29 March 1827
March 29th 1827
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes on wove paper with flier on wove paper (in sketchbook) (each page 280 x 214)
Hand
Charles James Richardson (1806 - 1871)
Pupil February 1824 - January 1827.
Pupil February 1824 - January 1827.
Notes
This view shows the room beneath the east end of the Painted Chamber, looking north. It is a vaulted space measuring 19'9'' by 12'3''. Guy Fawkes' Tower was at the south east corner of the Painted Chamber. To the left is part of the new wall of Soane's Royal Gallery (coloured pink in the plan). A copy of the sketch of the tower is reproduced in H. Colvin, "Views of the Old Palace of Westminster", Architectural History, 9, 1966, fig. 118.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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