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Temple of Vespasian, Rome, c.1759-64
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Reference number
SM D3/1/21
Purpose
Temple of Vespasian, Rome, c.1759-64
Aspect
[2] Measured drawing of the entablature and its details
Scale
A Scale of English Feet with which the present drawing measured / A Scale of Roman Palms / A Scale of Spanish Feet (1 5/8 in to 1 ft approximately)
Inscribed
The Entablature of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans [sic], dimensions given and (on frieze) ESTITVER (for 'Restituerunt')
Signed and dated
- 1759-64
Medium and dimensions
Black and brown pen on coarse laid paper (630 x 935)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
(footed) P
Notes
The drawing was made with a very fine pen and watered black ink and the details done with great care though many of the dimensions were added rather casually with a coarse pen and brown ink. The drawing paper (a stout laid paper indistinctly watermarked with a footed P with a diagonal slash in the angle) is found among several other of Dance's drawings made in Italy and subsequently, and may be of Italian manufacture (see Temple of Hercules, Baths of Caracalla, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Competition design for a public gallery awarded the gold Medal of the Parma Academy and also Newgate Gaol and St Martin Outwich).
James Mosley (The Nymph and the grot: the revival of the sanserif letter, 1999 p.22) writes of the inscribed ESTITIVER as 'the earliest surviving example of a measured drawing of an inscription'.
James Mosley (The Nymph and the grot: the revival of the sanserif letter, 1999 p.22) writes of the inscribed ESTITIVER as 'the earliest surviving example of a measured drawing of an inscription'.
Level
Drawing
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