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Reference number

SM 45/6/6 recto

Purpose

4 Rome: Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle: copy of measured drawing

Aspect

Half cross sections of 3 trusses and details of scarfed beam

Scale

to a scale that (from the dimensions) corresponds to 2/9 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, some pricking for transfer, traces of red sealing wax at corner on laid paper (397 x 549)

Hand

Soane

Notes

Without a bar scale but the dimensions correspond to the bar scale (2¼ inches divided by 10) given on Soane's plan and elevation of the Temple of Isis, Pompeii (q.v.).Comparison with C.H.Tatham's measured drawings of roof trusses labelled 'S Andrea della Valle' gives an identification for Soane's unlabelled drawings. So that here, the top and bottom trusses are from Sant' Andrea though the middle one remains unidentified since there is no corresponding roof truss among Tatham's drawings. Logically, it could be of the same building. See previous drawing for further roof trusses and for a note on the building.

Level

Drawing

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