- Title:
- Entrance to the House of Lords
- Date:
- 1796
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite, pen and black and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 × 6 7/8 inches (20.3 × 17.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: "Entrance to the House of Lords"; in graphite, upper left: "Entrance to H.L. good Mature Stocks | ground flat bands Stone dressings | Cornice"; in graphite, upper right (sheet trimmed): "boards [...] | [...] yard H. | is layed over | the brickwork"; in graphite, center right: "[...] Wind: | in between"; in graphite, center right: "Roof of K Entrance | slate & sloping &c to P. Ch"; in graphite, center right: "Eng. S"; in pen and black ink, center right: "flat or English | tiles"; and more materials labeled throughout with some dimensions given; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Entrance to the House | of Lords"; in pen and black ink, lower left: "36 feet front"; and scale labeled in graphite, lower right, numbers "1" to 12"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22545
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | exterior view
- Associated Places:
- City of Westminster | England | House of Lords | London | Palace of Westminster | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:55099
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Attributed to William Capon, 1757–1827, British, Entrance to the House of Lords, 1796
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