Notes
Presumably a list of places to visit - not all of them architectural. The 'Grotta del Cane' was described by Lady Miller, Letters from Italy ..., 1777 (volume II, pp.120-22) as a cave with low-lying gases, into which a dog was thrown and when unconscious taken out and revived. Baedeker's South Italy (1893) tells us that, for example: the Piscarelli were several small brooks containing alum that fell steaming into a ravine between the half-extinct volcano of Solfatara and the Lago d'Agnamo (producing, in Lady Miller's time, a famous medicinal water called Aqua di Pisciarelli); the Piscina Mirabilis at Bacoli was an underground reservoir at the end of the Julian Aqueduct that, 230 feet in length and 85 feet wide, had a vaulted ceiling supported by 48 massive columns; while the Mare Morto was part of the huge war-harbour of Misenum. Built in the time of Augustus to house the Roman fleet of the Tyrrhenian Sea, it consisted of three basins, the two outer ones flanked a promontory called Forno, the inner one was the Mare Morto. The supposed villa of Lucullus lay on the heights above. Apparently (Baedeker) Le Camerelle in the city of Capri refers to some 'substantial Roman masonry'.
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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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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