St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, Finsbury, Islington, London, 1777, 1781-2 and c.1794-1811

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, Finsbury, Islington, London, 1777, 1781-2 and c.1794-1811

Browse

George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Prison, courts and a lunatic hospital (5)
  - St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, Finsbury, Islington, London, 1777, 1781-2 and c.1794-1811 Competition design (by an unidentified architect), preliminary design by James Peacock?, contract drawings, specification and drawings of building as executed (32)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM D4/1/3

Purpose

St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, Finsbury, Islington, London, 1777, 1781-2 and c.1794-1811

Aspect

[1] Elevation of Principal Front

Scale

1/14 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, (on building) S^tLUKE'S HOSPITAL and N^o2 Signed: (verso) six-pointed star and olive branch

Signed and dated

1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, pencil, shaded, within double-ruled and wash border on laid paper (370 x 990)

Hand

James Gandon?

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

Design A is for a two-storey building with basement, 41 bays wide, the centre and two pyramidally-roofed, three-storey pavilion ends emphasised by ground floor rustification. A cupola with clock and weather vanes rises over the five-bay centre. Most windows are semicircular-headed, set within blind arches and linked by continuous impost mouldings and, except for the basement, are of conventional height.

REPRODUCED. P. du Prey, John Soane, the making of an architect, 1982, fig.3-2; E. McParland, James Gandon Vitruvius Britannica, 1985, fig.26.

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).