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Reference number

SM D4/1/25

Purpose

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

Aspect

[32] Plan, elevation and section of room, 13 ft 1 in by 11 ft 8 in, with chimney piece and tripartite window

Scale

1 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given and, on a plain horizontal tablet above the chimney-piece mantel, eight lines of (mostly illegible) verse that ends A Nation must be virtuous to be free

Signed and dated

  • 1777, 1781-2, c.1794-1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, green earth and raw umber washes on thick wove paper (715 x 485)

Hand

Dance, office hand C

Notes

The internal wall elevation is washed, above the dado, in two kinds of green, the chimney-breast in a slightly bluer green than the flanking walls in a grey-green. The chimney-piece supports a framed and pedimented blank tablet flanked by volutes. The room dimensions seem not to correspond with any of Dance's plans for St Luke's Hospital and so the drawing may not belong here.

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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