Surveys of candelabra made for James II's coronation banquet (Copy)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - Additional drawings, surveys etc. (44)
      - Drawings supplied to Soane in preparation for the coronation of George IV (12)

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Reference number

SM 62/4/4

Purpose

Surveys of candelabra made for James II's coronation banquet (Copy)

Aspect

Details of six candelabra (plans, part plans and elevations)

Scale

bar scales of 1 inch to 1 foot, 3/4 inch to 1 foot, 5/9 inch to 1 foot and 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and yellow wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark, top right hand corner missing (568 x 821)

Hand

Office of Works

Notes

The chandeliers are not shown in the plates in Sandford's History of the Coronation of... James II. They are very plain in design - perhaps a reflection of the fact that they had to be produced quickly in time for the coronation.

Level

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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