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Reference number

SM D3/8/14

Purpose

Theatre Royal, Beauford Square, Bath, 1804-5

Aspect

[15] Plan of ceiling, the arrangement of filler panels, roundels and frames differing from [SM D3/8/13]

Scale

½ Inch Scale

Inscribed

as above and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1804-5

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, crimson, yellow, sepia, green earth and blue washes, watercolour technique on thick wove paper (600 x 480)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The drawing, with thumb prints and splashes of paint, seems to have been used on site and so the design was presumably executed.

A particular problem with re-using the five painted panels with quadrant corners was that two measured 12 .. 10½ wide while the others were 7 feet 7 inches wide and there was a good deal of space in between them. Half, single and double roundels, triangles and fan shapes, with an umbrella (or double fan shell) motif in the centre pierced for ventilation, together with floral wreaths and frames deftly married the re-used paintings with their new location.

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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