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unidentified 18th C Italian architect (? Antonio Adami or Antonio Visentini), Rome, Arch of Constantine. SM 44/8/4. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo Ardon Bar-Hama
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Reference number

SM 44/8/4

Purpose

Buildings in Padua, Rome and Vicenza

Aspect

[3] Elevation of the Arch of Constantine, Rome

Scale

to two scales including, palmi Rom

Inscribed

as above and (pencil) Arco di Costantino

Signed and dated

  • 1759-64

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and sepia wash, shaded, within double ruled border on laid paper (380 x 495)

Hand

Italian draughtsman

Watermark

encircled fleur-de-lis

Notes

The elevation shows a triple-opening arch with eight detached Corinthian columns on pedestals; four carved figures on pedestals front the attic order.

In a letter to his father of 4 October 1760, Dance mentioned 'After I have measur'd the Arch of Constantine which I am now about' (RIBA MSS Collection, DaFam/1/2). However, no drawings of the Arch have survived and perhaps Dance never got round to it.

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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