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Reference number

SM D3/1/20

Purpose

Temple of Castor and Pollux (previously Temple of Jupitor Stator), Rome, 1760

Aspect

[2] Finished elevation of capital

Scale

3 in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

  • 1760

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, shaded, hatching on laid paper, with two old patches (460 x 545)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and W below and IV

Notes

Dance's carefully rendered pencil drawing explores the subtleties and opulence of a Corinthian capital that, unusually, has intertwined central helices and, between these and those at the angle, foliage rising along the abacus. As with say, the rare Roman Doric of the Temple of Cora, Dance seems intrigued by singularity in design.

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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