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 D5/7/18

Purpose

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

Aspect

[46] Elevation with tablet inscribed COLLEGIO. S. H. G. RR. S. / MDCCVI and rough profile of capital

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

pediment inscribed as above and some vertical dimensions given Verso Rough elevation of pedimented four-column portico Pencil

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, shaded, pencil within double ruled border, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (435 x 660)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

Ruse & Turners

Notes

Drawn to a 1/5 inch to 1 foot scale, this is assumed to be an early drawing and is in many ways superior to the executed design. It differs in the plain treatment of the arch without mouldings and the fenestration of the bays either side of the centre, while the raised tablet, crowning urns, and wreaths on the frieze drawn here were omitted. It may be that the more emphatic crowning features of this initial design made the back front too 'important' (and expensive) and were dropped. Interestingly, the 'suppression/omission of the upper mouldings of the cornice' (the cymatium) that Soane commented on (see the notes on the Portugal Street front below) is shown and, because here the blocking course and tablet separate pediment and cornice, works rather better than in the executed design. The mouldings between architrave and frieze are minimal.

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