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Drawing. SM 48/4/4. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
Reference number
SM 48/4/4
Purpose
Competition design for a large building (a palazzo?) with a theatre
Aspect
[1] Preliminary design
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- 1760
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, light blue and raw umber washes, pencil, within single ruled border on laid paper, recently backed with tissue paper, folded three times (850 x 835)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
encircled fleur-de-lis
Notes
The drawing is incomplete so that, for example, the right-hand H-wing does not have the room divisions drawn in.
The plan shows a vast complex symmetrically planned within a park. At one end of this park is a bridged canal with terraces stairs and fountains and both the hard landscape and the avenue of trees echo the building plan and continue the lines of axis. Overall, the plan consists of two H-shaped wings (with elongated and hollow cross-bars) facing each other across a huge courtyard, connected at one end by the main body of the building which contains a theatre. The apsidal end of the theatre (the horseshoe-shaped auditorium with gallery) projects into the courtyard while a deep stage area as well as the entrance and foyers are in its rectangular body, enclosed on three sides by a smaller courtyard. Every external wall has a stepped base, and colonnades front most of the building.
The plan shows a vast complex symmetrically planned within a park. At one end of this park is a bridged canal with terraces stairs and fountains and both the hard landscape and the avenue of trees echo the building plan and continue the lines of axis. Overall, the plan consists of two H-shaped wings (with elongated and hollow cross-bars) facing each other across a huge courtyard, connected at one end by the main body of the building which contains a theatre. The apsidal end of the theatre (the horseshoe-shaped auditorium with gallery) projects into the courtyard while a deep stage area as well as the entrance and foyers are in its rectangular body, enclosed on three sides by a smaller courtyard. Every external wall has a stepped base, and colonnades front most of the building.
Level
Drawing
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