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James Evelyn Column, Felbridge Place

Architectural Drawing
1824-1863 (made), 1785 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Richardson, Charles James (draughtsmen (technical))
Soane, John (Sir) (architect)
Place of origin
London (made)

Working drawings showing a vertical section of the James Evelyn Column, a plan of the base of the column and an elevation of the entire column.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Architecture
Commemoration
Object type
Architectural drawing
TitleJames Evelyn Column, Felbridge Place (generic title)
Materials and techniques
pen and ink drawing with brown and pink wash
Pen and Ink
Wash
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
Design for a monument to the parents of James Evelyn, by C. J. Richardson, after a design by Sir John Soane, ca.1824-1830
Physical description
Working drawings showing a vertical section of the James Evelyn Column, a plan of the base of the column and an elevation of the entire column.
Dimensions
  • Height: 42.2cm
  • Width: 20.3cm
Dimensions taken from du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p.45, cat.70.
Style
Neoclassical
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
Monumental Column for Jas. Evelyn Esq. (inscribed on page)
Object history
This monument to the parents of James Evelyn was erected in 1785 at Felbridge Place in Surrey and moved to Lemington Hall, Northumberland, in 1928. Richardson's copies preserve a record of Soane originals which cannot be traced.

This drawing was pasted into a copy of Sir John Soane's book Designs for Public and Private Buildings owned by Soane's assistant Charles James Richardson. Richardson built up a large collection of originals and copies (many of which he executed himself) of his master's designs, and distributed the bulk of them into two folio volumes, interspersed with the printed pages of the book. These volumes were bought by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) in 1863.
Production
copied from a 1785 drawing by John Soane, which cannot be traced
Subjects depicted
Monument
Columns
Place depicted
Surrey
Associations
Soane, John (Sir)
Northumberland
Associated object
3306:157
Bibliographic references
  • du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p.45, cat.70.
  • Stroud, D. 'The Early Work of Soane', Architectural Review, 121 (1957), p. 122.
  • Stroud, D. The Architecture of Sir John Soane, 1961, p. 158.
  • Hudson, M. 'Soane's Gratitude in Stone', Country Life, 164 (1978), pp. 592-3.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
3306:156

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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