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Reference number

SM volume 19/20

Purpose

Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765

Aspect

[4] Part plan of nave and apse ceiling, not fully drawn out

Scale

2 in to 3 ft

Inscribed

Some dimensions given Signed: Exhibited [sic] to me James Taylor Dated: 23rd May 1765

Signed and dated

  • 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil within single ruled border on laid paper, with three old patches (480 x 660)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and VDL below

Notes

The semi-circular barrel-vaulted nave has almost square panels (measuring 4...10 by 4...6) with alternating motifs employing the anthemion that Dance first used in his Parma competition entry. As executed, the apse's diagonal coffering (derived from the Temple of Venus and Rome) has more coffers than shown on the drawing and the half-patera is larger.

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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