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Model for the New Masonic Hall, Great Queen Street, London, spandrel ornament, designed by Sir John Soane
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SM M14. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
Model for the New Masonic Hall, Great Queen Street, London, spandrel ornament, designed by Sir John Soane
Plaster
Museum number: M14
On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
M14 See also DR1. This is a study for the symbolic decoration of the four spandrils to either side of the arched recesses in the main walls of the hall.
There traces of red and green paint on some of the details, suggesting that this small model might have been used in the planning of the decorative scheme.
There traces of red and green paint on some of the details, suggesting that this small model might have been used in the planning of the decorative scheme.
Associated items
DR1, related material
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