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Plan of the ground floor of the James King Mausoleum

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

Plan of the ground floor of the James King Mausoleum. An x-shaped plan with sepulchral chambers leading off from a central circular chapel.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Architecture
Commemoration
Death
Object type
Architectural drawing
TitlePlan of the ground floor of the James King Mausoleum (generic title)
Materials and techniques
pen and ink with grey, green and pink wash on paper
Pen and Ink
Wash
Paper (Fiber Product)
Architectural Drawing
Brief description
Plan of the ground floor of the James King Mausoleum, C. J. Richardson, copy of a design by John Soane, second quarter of 19th century
Physical description
Plan of the ground floor of the James King Mausoleum. An x-shaped plan with sepulchral chambers leading off from a central circular chapel.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26.7cm
  • Width: 25.9cm
Dimensions taken from du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985
Style
Neoclassical
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed with many measurements and notes
  • Ground Floor (lower edge)
  • Plan of a Mausoleum / design made by J. Soane in 1777 (in pencil)
  • Mausoleum designed 1777 (on page, twice)
Object history
John Soane's close friend James King died in a boating accident on the Thames in June 1776. Soon after King's death, Soane began designs for a mausoleum in his memory. The drawings were displayed at the Royal Academy in 1777, but the structure does not seem to have been built.

This drawing was pasted into a copy of 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
after a design by John Soane (1777)
Subjects depicted
Mausoleum
Ground Plans
Association
Soane, John (Sir)
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, pp. 34-35, cat. 21
  • Soane, J. Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings Erected in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, etc., London, 1788, pls. 37, 38
  • Soane, J. Designs for Public and Private Buildings, 2d, extra-illustrated ed., London, 1832, title page
  • du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. John Soane’s Architectural Education 1753-80, New York, 1977, pp. 85-86
  • Stillman, D. ‘Death Defied and Honour Upheld: The Mausoleum in Neo-Classical England’, Art Quarterly, I (1978), pp. 175-213, fig. 26, cat. 24
  • Summerston, J. ‘Sir John Soane and the Furniture of Death’. Architectural Review, 163 (1978), pp. 147-155
  • du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. John Soane: The Making of an Architect, Chicago, 1982, pp. 94, 96-97, 172-174
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
3306:3

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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