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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  - 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 D5/2/22

Purpose

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

Aspect

[9] Plan of basement showing anatomy theatre and museum drawn over a part-survey plan of first floor, and section showing pavement levels

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Section shewing the different heights of pavement / in Lincoln's Inn Fields and Portugal Street, Pavement Portugal Street, Level of Principal Floor of College House, Line of Level of Principal Floor of College House, Line of Pavement of Lincoln's Inn Fields, (faint pencil) Cellar for / the use of the / College and (verso, Dance) Gen^lPlan of / Basement

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen and burnt umber wash, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (575 x 865)

Hand

Dance, J. Neill (survey)

Watermark

Ruse & Turners 1805

Notes

This section shows a difference between the 'Level of Principal Floor' and pavement of 6 feet 10 inches in Portugal Street and 2 feet 11¼ inches in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Drawings [SM D5/2/23], [SM D5/2/21], [SM D5/2/22] are Dance's revisions for the museum and anatomy theatre at basement level drawn on survey drawings for the basement and first floor (sic). At this stage, the museum has the same plan form as on [SM D5/1/15], that is, a five-bay stretched ellipse or, to put it another way, a three-bay rectangle with north and south apses. On [SM D5/1/15], the anatomy theatre was almost a circle but compressed and awkward; here it has a more elegant oval plan. The north end of the museum that was to occupy the back half of No. 42 Lincoln's Inn Fields is drawn in outline only, suggesting the demarcation line for the phased building programme. A plan of the north end of the museum [SM D5 2/3] has a note about a 'Temporary Partition to enclose that part of the Museum now finished' which seems to confirm that idea.

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