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Drawing. SM 48/4/8. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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