[9] Record drawing (made in 1796) of the Royal Academy Gold Medal competition design of 1776

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [9] Record drawing (made in 1796) of the Royal Academy Gold Medal competition design of 1776

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane's architectural education including theoretical designs made for the Royal Academy Schools and for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1770-80, and in Italy, 1778-80
    - Design for a Triumphal Bridge for the Royal Academy Schools Gold Medal competition 1776, later revised and sent to the Parma Academy, 1780, with preliminary designs by George Dance, 1776 and ? 1778, and later copies and perspectives, 1796-c.1827 (21)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM volume 62/2

Purpose

[9] Record drawing (made in 1796) of the Royal Academy Gold Medal competition design of 1776

Aspect

Copy to a reduced scale of cross section

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

(pencil) Smirke and Oct^r29^th1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and light blue washes, pencil, shaded, within single ruled border on thin laid paper (231 x 369)

Hand

Robert Smirke (pupil, 1796-7)

Notes

A close copy to a reduced scale of Soane's Royal Academy Gold Medal Design - Section through the Center Building (see SM 12/5/3).

Robert Smirke (1780-1867) was briefly a pupil in Soane's office from 1796 to 1797. (The Office Day Book from October 24 1796 onwards is missing and thus cannot be checked for an entry by Smirke).

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).