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Reference number

SM D4/11/2

Purpose

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

Aspect

[5] Cross SECTION UPON THE LINE EF and THE PRINCIPAL FACADE

Scale

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

Inscribed

Inscribed as above, (over entrance) PHILIPPO PARM.PLACE.ET GVAS. DVCI / BONARVM ARTIVM FAVTORI MVNIFICO and (verso) 39

Signed and dated

  • 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, shaded, pencil within double ruled and sepia wash border on coarse laid paper, with three old patches (610 x 915)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

(footed) P

Notes

Soane had the elevation on this drawing copied for his Royal Academy Lecture VIII, No.45 [SM 18/7/6]. A variation was that the four windows in Dance's drawing [SM D4/11/6] were substituted for the single window at each end seen here. Some liberties were taken with the statues which are not always as shown in either of Dance's own elevations.

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.14; E Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: his interiors, 2001, fig.319.

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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