Survey plan of property? City of London?

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Some work in the City of London (11)
  - Survey plan of property?, City of London? (1)

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Reference number

SM Volume 18/79

Purpose

Survey plan of property? City of London?

Aspect

[1] Plan, not finished

Scale

1/10 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

some dimensions given and calculation

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on laid paper (550 x 370)

Hand

Dance?

Verso

Faint pencil plan of further properties

Watermark

fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and LVG below

Notes

The unfinished plan is very irregular and is probably of a property in the City of London.

The watermark is early and was used by the elder Dance several times but also by the younger Dance for some of his first works. The four pencil dimensions are not in either hand but a small calculation is probably by the son and the draughtsmanship could be his.

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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