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Drawing. SM 48/4/7. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
Reference number
SM 48/4/7
Purpose
Baths of Carcalla, Rome, c.1759-64
Aspect
[2] Outline section with caldarium in the centre
Scale
Piedi Inglesi 1/10 in to 1 ft approximately and Palmi Romani
Inscribed
Caracalla and (Dance) faint pencil dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c.1759-64
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (210 x 490)
Hand
Dance, Italian hand
Watermark
encircled fleur-de-lis
Notes
The drawing was separated from the Dance collection in the 19th century but appears in Bonomi's inventory (Joseph Bonomi, Soane Museum curator 1861-76) and in Dance's hand though, for example, the inscription concerning scale is in an Italian hand found on several of the record drawings brought back from Rome by Dance.
Level
Drawing
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