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Royal Palace

Architectural Drawing
14/04/1826 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plan and elevation of the ovoid triumphal entrance gate and railings for a Royal Palace connecting to T-shaped outer lodges.
Scale: 1/4in. to 10ft.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleRoyal Palace (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink with brown, grey and red wash on paper
Brief description
Plan and elevation of the ovoid triumphal entrance gate and railings for a Royal Palace connecting to T-shaped outer lodges, C. J. Richardson, as an assistant with Sir John Soane, 1826
Physical description
Plan and elevation of the ovoid triumphal entrance gate and railings for a Royal Palace connecting to T-shaped outer lodges.
Scale: 1/4in. to 10ft.
Dimensions
  • Height: 116mm
  • Width: 392mm
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.108, cat. 454
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Insc. on page Royal Palace; s. CJR; d. in pencil at lower left 14 April 1826. (inscribed on page)
Object history
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
This drawing is one of a series of designs by Sir John Soane (on 5 sheets, 3306:26-30) for a Royal Palace, drawn after Soane was named architect of Buckingham House in 1815 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821, but never built.
Association
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Bibliographic reference
du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p.108, cat. 454
Collection
Accession number
3306:30

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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