[6] Elevations/sections of north and south walls and plan, April/May 1787

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Fonthill Splendens, Wiltshire: (unexecuted) picture gallery, (executed) chimney-pieces and a state bed for William Beckford, 1787-1788 (14)
    - Rough preliminary variant designs and final (unexecuted) design by ? George Dance for a picture gallery, April/May 1787 (7)

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Reference number

SM volume 57/34

Purpose

[6] Elevations/sections of north and south walls and plan, April/May 1787

Aspect

Section N^o 3: elevations/sections of north and south walls and plan as in drawing 5 but with more attention to the picture hanging; (pencil) additions include: detail of Ionic column labelled Impost and elevation of columnar screen.

Scale

1/7 of an inch to one foot approximately

Inscribed

as above, View of Gall[ery], Best Staircase, Blue Staircase, Apollo, Skylight (twice), Dentil / cornice / antique / Ionic, some dimensions given and calculations

Signed and dated

April 1787 - May 1787
datable to April/May 1787 (see notes in group folder)

Medium and dimensions

bown pen and pencil on laid paper (349 x 297) Drawings 1-6 are on the same type of thin laid paper, each with three or four fold marks. All of the drawings are pasted into an album with (blue) sugar paper leaves (volume 57)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

not available (affixed at corners and edges)

Literature

For further reading see J. Lever, 'The Soane-Dance collaboration, 1771-1799', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 53, pp.163-190

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Palaces of Art: Art Galleries in Britain 1790-1990, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 27 November 1991 - 1 March 1992; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 12 March - 3 May 1992

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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