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.
From Buckingham House, 91 Pall Mall.
Size 1920 x 600 x 400 mm.
Supplied by 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.
Soane was commissioned by George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, to redesign Buckingham House in 1790.
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
This project comprised the integration of two separate dwellings into one residence, with a top-lit stairwell as its ‘most striking internal feature’.
The chief craftsmen employed by Soane were P. Norris, bricklayer; Richard Holland, carpenter; James Nelson, mason; William Rothwell, plasterer; John Mackell, smith; Richard Laurence and David Bryson, carvers, and John Crace, painter. (fn. 19) Nelson was responsible for all the chimneypieces (fn. 20) except two. One of these last was carved in dove marble by Charles Peart, mason, for £51 16s., and the other, for the drawing-room, had been carved by John Bacon and bought for £75 (half its original cost) from the Earl of Hardwicke; it was said to be 'not the worse for use'.
This chimneypiece probably came from the Earl of Hardwicke's
house at Wimpole, where Soane was working at the time
Coade supplied the artificial stone coat of arms on the parapet
for 45 guineas, the eight statues for the staircase at 15 guineas each, and 68
whole, and 14 half, balusters (see below).
of Tangential Interest
Chimneypiece in room 72 at Buckingham House, 91 Pall Mall,
St James's. The master mason, James Nelson, carved most of the chimneypieces in
the house.
The Caryatids were removed from Buckingham House, Pall Mall in 1908.
Image courtest National Trust website.
https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/516655.1
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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 - 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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The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated by James
Stuart and Nicholas Revett vol. 2. 1787.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucbk.ark:/28722/h28g8g332&seq=1&view=1up
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Drawing at the Soane Museum.
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Coade at The Bank of England.
https://www.haerbnuti.com/architectural-drawings?pgid=khvvqg63-182dcb9a-063b-45ce-bfbd-71d6092f2749
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