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Reference number
SM D3/1/14
Purpose
Baths of Carcalla, Rome, c.1759-64
Aspect
[1] Plan, incomplete
Scale
1/6 in to 10 ft approximately
Inscribed
Caracalla and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c.1759-64
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on coarse laid paper 515 x 705
Hand
Dance
Watermark
(footed) P
Notes
The northeast and northwest colonnades of the Thermac of Caracalla (AD 211-17) are not drawn in. The drawing is rather mechanical and Dance may have made the plan from published or other sources and then measured on site the remains of the teipidarium, frigidarium and other apartments, adding the dimensions in feet and inches to his drawing.
For an engraved view of the Baths form an album of prints belonging to George Dance the Elder, see SM P43.
For an engraved view of the Baths form an album of prints belonging to George Dance the Elder, see SM P43.
Level
Drawing
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