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Reference number

SM D4/11/3

Purpose

Competition design for a public gallery awarded the Gold medal of the Parma Academy in 1763, copies 1763-c.1765 and 1794 or later

Aspect

[4] Ground floor plan

Scale

A Scale of English Feet (3/10 in to 10 ft approximately)

Inscribed

Plan of a Magnificent Public Gallery done for the Premium given by the Royal Academy of Parma in the year 1763, lettered AB, CD and EF for three sections and (verso) 39 Signed: Mihi turpe relinqui est ('it is shameful of me to be left behind') and George Dance Arch.

Signed and dated

  • 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil within double ruled and sepia wash border on coarse laid paper (910 x 615)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

(footed) P

Notes

On Soane's use of Dance's motto see the general note in 'Dance and Soane' (p.351). REPRODUCED. E. Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: his interiors, 2001 fig.318.

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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