Monument in the form of a mausoleum for George Washington (1732-99) Washington, USA, 1800 (4). Preliminary designs and unexecuted design

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Reference number

SM D3/13/3

Purpose

Monument in the form of a mausoleum for George Washington (1732-99) Washington, USA, 1800 (4). Preliminary designs and unexecuted design

Aspect

[1] Sketch perspective of pyramid with projecting doorways

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

4 Verso Rough detail of elevation Inscribed: Sub plinth Monument, London Stone, vertical dimensions given and dimensional calculations Pencil

Signed and dated

1800

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, shaded on laid secretary paper (170 x 200)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

Britannia in roundel (cut)

Notes

The stone for the monument was to have been given by Charles Polhill (1725-1805), a friend of Dance and owner of several quarries.

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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