Soane used the Caryatids on the Bank of England Pitzanger House and his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields
John Soane's first use of the Coade Caryatids
The Buckingham House Caryatids now at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire.
Size 1920 x 600 x 400 mm.
Coade & Sealy, 1793.
They were once painted in order to appear like bronze.
One of six over-life-size caryatids moulded of Coade artificial stone and based on figures from the Porch of the Caryatids of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens and also on the caryatids at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli. The base and its original inscriptions eroded.
The statues once held up the dome of the oval lantern above the
staircase at Buckingham House, Pall Mall, which was rebuilt by John Soane (1753-1837) for
the first Marquis of Buckingham in 1792-95
Removed
from Buckingham House, Pall Mall in 1908.
Image courtest National Trust website.
https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/516655.1
The Coade Caryatids at Pitzhanger Manor.
The Manor was remodelled by Sir John Soane between 1800 - 1804.
https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/about/history/coade-stone/
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The two caryatids on the balcony at the top of the
projecting 'loggia' on the second-floor façade of 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields are
made of Coade stone, a form of artificial stone. Sir John Soane paid £41 to
Coade and Seeley at Lambeth for them in November 1812, the year that he rebuilt
the building.
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