Alternative design for a six-columned triumphal arch set on an inverted curve

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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Reference number

SM (9) volume 72/8

Purpose

Alternative design for a six-columned triumphal arch set on an inverted curve

Aspect

9 Front elevation and ground floor plan

Scale

to a scale

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

Hayes & Wise 1799

Notes

The portico set on an inverted plan is shown in elevation and plan. Paired Corinithian columns are paired and between single columns that project at angles to either side. The attic above consists of a recessed panel between paired pilasters capped by antefixes, and with semicircular-headed openings at an angle to the main face. The drawing is undated. It resembles the very early design superimposed in pencil on drawing 6 and superimposed on drawing 8 in pen. The drawings share the same watermark, further evidence that the drawings were made around the same date.

Level

Drawing

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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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