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Reference number

SM D3/1/8

Purpose

Temple of Vesta (or Temple of the Sibyl), Tivoli, near Rome, 1761-3 and 1794-5

Aspect

[25] Parts of the Capital / of the Temple of / Tivoli / Geo. Dance

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(Meyer) as above, Capital - Temple of Tivoli Copied from Drawings by George Dance Archi and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1795
    (Meyer) Copy Jany 23 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen on thin laid paper (355 x 580)

Hand

Soane Office, (Meyer)

Notes

These details were based on Dance's studies [SM D3/2/5(c)], [SM D3/2/5(d)], [SM D3/2/5(e)].

[SM D3/1/11], [SM D3/1/10] and [SM D3/1/8] are dated 23 January 1795. The entry in Soane's Office Day Book for 22 (sic) January 1795 includes Copying drawings of / Tivoli Capital / Meyer and on 24 January Seward left at Mr Dance's / No.3 Drawing of Temple of / Tivoli Capital Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848) was in Soane's office from 1794 to 1808 (Colvin).

It is possible that [SM D3/1/11], [SM D3/1/13], [SM D3/1/10] and [SM D3/1/8] with [SM D3/1/12] are from Soane's collection rather than from that of Dance (M. Richardson, 'John Soane and the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XLVI, 2003).

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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