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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)
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Reference number
SM D5/1/15
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[6] Plan of ground floor with three-bay museum with N and S apses, an anatomy theatre that is oval with 12 rows of seats and alternative porticos, all drawn over a survey plan of the existing ground floor.
Scale
1/5 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
dimensions of portico given, 83.7 by the Scale betwixt the existing Walls (Portugal Street) and calculations of numbers of brackets for Gallery
Verso
Rough elevation of a building in a symmetrical Castle style with lantern tower behind an arched centre flanked by towers
Pencil
This is related to Dance's design for Lowther Castle and evidence of his continuing interest in its design, though by the summer of 1806 the young Robert Smirke had, with Dance's help, taken over the job.
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Black and red pen, sepia, light red, yellow, blue and pink washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (945 x 565)
Hand
Dance, J. Neill (survey)
Watermark
James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1795
Notes
The courtyards and stables that were the sites for the museum and anatomy theatre are shown more clearly here than on the previous drawing.
Dance has almost reached the solution for the south end of his scheme. It is now much better integrated though he has still to refine the compass-drawn parts of anatomy theatre and museum and to introduce the external 'great niche' that resolves and expresses the junction of oval anatomy theatre and semicircular-ended museum on the Portugal Street elevation and is shown on subsequent drawings. Three circular and two semicircular skylights light the museum.
For the main front to Lincoln's Inn Fields, Dance (using light and dark sepia and blue and pink washes) tries differing solutions for relocating windows and doors and placing the six columns of the portico. The difficulties of reconciling the domestic scale of the two house fronts with a giant portico while allowing access to the basement is very evident.
See also [SM D5/1/8] for a similar design with low curved end walls to the portico.
Dance has almost reached the solution for the south end of his scheme. It is now much better integrated though he has still to refine the compass-drawn parts of anatomy theatre and museum and to introduce the external 'great niche' that resolves and expresses the junction of oval anatomy theatre and semicircular-ended museum on the Portugal Street elevation and is shown on subsequent drawings. Three circular and two semicircular skylights light the museum.
For the main front to Lincoln's Inn Fields, Dance (using light and dark sepia and blue and pink washes) tries differing solutions for relocating windows and doors and placing the six columns of the portico. The difficulties of reconciling the domestic scale of the two house fronts with a giant portico while allowing access to the basement is very evident.
See also [SM D5/1/8] for a similar design with low curved end walls to the portico.
Level
Drawing
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