Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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  - Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis) (226). Survey drawings, preliminary designs, design and working drawings

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Reference number

SM D5/1/12

Purpose

Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

Aspect

[5] Ground floor plan drawn over a survey plan of existing ground floor

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Plan of a Museum & Theatre proposed to be added to the Premises in Lincolns Inn Fields / belonging to the Colleg [sic] of Surgeons, NB The parts tinted with Indian Ink denote the present buildings / the parts tinted with Red & Brown shew the proposed Museum & Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Portugal Street, Court yard (twice), The Library over this room, Extreme length 103 feet, Extreme breadth / 39 ft 6 inches, table, Professors / room, lettered for sections A B and C D, some dimensions given, (Dance) This is a Copy made by Mess^rs Keeble & C^o / The original sent back to the House of Commons and (verso, office) Royal College of Surgeons / drawings Dated: Rough Copy / June 25.1806

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink and burnt umber washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (630 x 970)

Hand

Dance, J. Neill (survey), Messrs Keeble & Co

Watermark

Edmeads & Pine 1804

Notes

The design differs from [SM D5/3/23] in a few details only; for example, the vestibule in the anatomy theatre is now a spiral stair. Dance's design shows the parts of the building (fronting Lincoln's Inn Fields) that are to be retained outlined in sepia wash, the new parts (museum and anatomy theatre) outlined in pink wash and, in pen outline, those parts at the rear that are to be demolished. Thus, at the south end, fronting on to Portugal Street were two stable buildings with a courtyard, larger in No.42, between the stables and the houses. All of this was to make way for a museum and anatomy theatre for the Surgeons.

J. Neill was surveyor to the College of Surgeons from 1790. Messrs Keeble & Co., who made this copy drawing, have not been traced in street directories or other sources; Colvin gives a Henry Ashley Keeble (-1840). The reference by Dance to the 'original [drawing] sent back to the House of Commons' relates to the Royal College of Surgeons receiving a parliamentary grant of £15,000 (7 July 1806) followed by a further £12,500 (1810).

Drawings, [SM D5/1/12], [SM D5/1/15], [SM D5/2/23], [SM D5/2/21], [SM D5/2/22], [SM D5/1/1], [SM D5/1/17], [SM D5/1/18], [SM D5/1/16] and [SM D5/1/10], [SM D5/3/3], to a scale of 1 inch to 5 feet, are (except for [SM D5/1/17], [SM D5/1/18], [SM D5/1/16]) described as drawn over survey plans made by J. Neill, Surveyor to the College of Surgeons from 1790. Drawings [SM D5/1/7], [SM D5/1/13], [SM D5/1/6], [SM D5/1/9] and [SM D5/1/11], to a scale of 1 inch to 4 feet, are also re-used survey drawings by Neill. These 'survey' drawings incorporate the regularised ten-bay front that was proposed and new as well as old staircases.

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