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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 D5/1/9
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[27] Plan of ground floor including six-column portico drawn over a survey plan of the ground floor
Scale
¼ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
some dimensions given and stairs numbered 1 to 32
Signed: Wm Long
Dated: June 7 1810
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Black and red pen, pink, sepia, blue, yellow and raw umber washes, pencil, within single ruled border, pricked for transfer on wove paper (955 x 600)
Hand
Dance, J. Neill (survey)
Watermark
J Whatman 1801
Notes
The signed and dated drawing is presumably an 'official' one (like [SM D5/1/12]) made in connection with the parliamentary grant received in 1810 for the completion of the building works of the Royal College of Surgeons. It records work carried out in Phase 1 as well as the work to be done in Phase 2.
There is, in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons, an elevation of the Lincoln's Inn Fields front with a six-column Ionic portico, signed and dated as above and inscribed 'Copy'. It shows a seven-bay, three storey front with semicircular-headed windows to the ground and second floors, two entrance doors with circular fanlights and an Ionic portico having a frieze inscribed QUÆ PROSVNT OMNIBUS ARTES and a balustrade above the entablature with six shallow urns over the capitals (RCS Library, catalogue 299). However, some details are not as executed, for example, the two elongated elliptical skylights of the museum. The anatomy theatre has 11 rows of benches arranged in a semicircle.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig. 57b, captioned 'Dance's final plan for reconstruction to form a new museum and lecture hall'.
There is, in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons, an elevation of the Lincoln's Inn Fields front with a six-column Ionic portico, signed and dated as above and inscribed 'Copy'. It shows a seven-bay, three storey front with semicircular-headed windows to the ground and second floors, two entrance doors with circular fanlights and an Ionic portico having a frieze inscribed QUÆ PROSVNT OMNIBUS ARTES and a balustrade above the entablature with six shallow urns over the capitals (RCS Library, catalogue 299). However, some details are not as executed, for example, the two elongated elliptical skylights of the museum. The anatomy theatre has 11 rows of benches arranged in a semicircle.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig. 57b, captioned 'Dance's final plan for reconstruction to form a new museum and lecture hall'.
Level
Drawing
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