Baths of Carcalla, Rome, c.1759-64

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Italy 1759-1764 (15)
  - Baths of Caracalla, Rome, c.1759-64. Plan of reconstruction and section (2)

Drawing. SM 48/4/7. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

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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.

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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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