Watercolour on paper
Inscription: Frame insc: Mausoleum and Picture Gallery with Gods Gift College Dulwich (Sir John Soane 1811) [added later; probably 1875]
Inscription: [Title] DULWICH COLLEGE _ The picture / Gallery and MAUSOLEUM erected pursuant / to the WILL and at the expense of the late / SIR FRANCIS BOURGEOIS / This assemblage has been made to illustrate / the doctrine of the Reverend T.F. DIBDIN lately / promulgated respecting the advantages to the Public of liberal criticism and the unshackled freedom / of the Press [top right]
Inscription: View of the ENTRANCE FRONT in its present unfinished state [top centre]
Inscription: CENTRAL VIEW FROM THE ENTRANCE COURT AGREABLY TO THE ORIGINAL DESIGN [centre: drawn as per the orignal design with the mausoleum on this side - from October 1811 the design was altered and it was moved to the west side]
Inscription: View of the LAWN FRONT of the BUILDING with the omission of the temporary entrance at the South East corner [Bottom centre: this seems to be a reference to the brick porch added 1815-16 at SE corner which served as the entrance until the 1860s]
Inscription: THE MAUSOLEUM [Centre right]
Inscription: THE PLAN of the / BUILDINGS agreably [sic] to the ORIGINAL DESIGN [bottom right]
Inscription: ANGULAR VIEW from the Entrance Court / agreeably to the original design [top left]
Inscription: THE PICTURE GALLERY [centre left]
Inscription: The plan of the building in its present unfinished and altered state [bottom left]
Museum number: P265
Not on display