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 D5/1/6

Purpose

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

Aspect

[26] Plan showing timber framing of museum and anatomy theatre drawn over a survey plan of the ground floor, and sectioned through the Portugal Street front

Scale

¼ in to 1 foot

Inscribed

dimensions given and (verso, Dance) R^lCol^e of Surgeons / Genl Plan of Museum & Theatre / with the principal Timbers / also / figured front next Portugal Street Verso Very rough plan Inscribed: Area (that is, basement) and 60 Pencil Possibly related to the College of Surgeons

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, yellow and burnt umber washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (605 x 1165)

Hand

Dance, J. Neill (survey)

Watermark

James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent (cut)

Notes

A stretched elliptical skylight is roughed in over the top of a circular lantern (and part of another). The section shows for example circular windows at ground level, as executed.

Level

Drawing

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