Graphite, pen and black and brown ink and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 15/16 inches (23.5 x 37.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Lincolns Inn Fields, Jan: 16th: 1797"; in pen and black ink, lower center: "A View of the Saloon"; in pen and black ink, lower left: "Earl Poulett"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.2.420
Classification:
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
festoons | windows | doors | domes | fireplaces | paintings | architectural subject
Associated Places:
Greater London | London | Holborn | The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30)
Publications:
Sir John Soane, The works of Sir John Soane, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 1924, p. XXXV, NJ18 .So2 A12 1924 + Oversize (YCBA)Dorothy Stroud, The architecture of Sir John Soane, Studio Editions, London, 1961, p. 160, NJ19 .So2 S75 + Oversize (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 148, no. 126, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Eric R. Wolterstorff, British architectural drawings, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1982, pp. 22-3, no. 33, V 0251 (YCBA)