Design for a Royal Palace
Architectural Drawing
c.1824-1830 (made)
c.1824-1830 (made)
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Ground plan of the palace made up of two square wings set around a central courtyard flanking a rectangular main pavilion grouped around two internal courtyards.
Object details
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| Title | Design for a Royal Palace (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink, pen and red ink with brown, green, orange and blue wash on paper |
| Brief description | Ground plan of a Royal Palace, Constitution Hill, made up of two square wings set around a central courtyard flanking a rectangular main pavilion grouped around two internal courtyards, probably done by C. J. Richardson, as a student draughtsman with Sir John Soane, c.1824-1830 |
| Physical description | Ground plan of the palace made up of two square wings set around a central courtyard flanking a rectangular main pavilion grouped around two internal courtyards. |
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| Content description | Designs for a Royal Palace, Constitution Hill, were drawn after Soane was named architect of Buckingham House in 1815 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Insc. with dimensions and on page Design for a Royal Palace and Palace, Constitution Hill. (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. |
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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 453 |
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| Accession number | 3306:26 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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