Unidentified piazza, 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)
  - Unidentified piazza, Rome, c.1759-64. Measured drawings (3)

Drawing. SM 48/4/8. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

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Reference number

SM 48/4/8

Purpose

Unidentified piazza, Rome, c.1759-64

Aspect

[3] Part-elevation and section

Scale

Palmi Romani or 1/10 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

as above (pen, Italian hand)

Signed and dated

c.1759-64

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid secretary paper (305 x 435)

Hand

Dance? Italian hand

Watermark

horn within crowned cartouche and SP

Notes

The faint pencil drawings are unfinished and worn - with old fold lines and tears, the stains of sealing wafers and old mould. This may have been an early exercise that Nicola Giansimone set for his pupil. Dance would certainly have needed someone else to hold the other end of the tape and the inscriptions are not in his hand. Interestingly some of them correspond to the hand that inscribed Palmi Romani and/or Piedi Inglesi on some of the record drawings bought by Dance [SM D3/1/3] as well as a section of the Baths of Caracalla [SM 48/4/7] and a design for a palazzo [SM 48/4/10].

Level

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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