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 D5/7/17

Purpose

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

Aspect

[47] Elevation of the Front in Portugal Street with frieze inscribed ROYAL COLLEGE OF SVRGEONS and railings shown, and plan of wall

Scale

Scale ¼ of an inch to the Foot

Inscribed

as above, N^o.1 Royal College of Surgeons, NB This Drawing to be returned, key to FS details lettered A B C D E S, dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Royal College of Surgeons Signed: GD

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Black and blue pen, sepia and raw umber washes, pencil on laid paper (460 x 670)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV

Notes

For the full-size details referred to on this drawing, see [SM D5/7/12], [SM D5/4/18] and [SM D5/4/28].

Except for the lettering on the frieze, this design, allowing for Soane's prejudice concerning the cornice, corresponds to his Royal Academy lecture drawing of the executed front. This was prepared for Soane's Lecture IV, 1810 (SM drawer 18/7/17) and was subsequently included (Plate 1, 'Anglo-Grecian architecture') in the unpublished 'An Appeal to the Public occasioned by the suspension of the architectural lectures in the Royal Academy' (1812). The only important visual evidence, outside of Dance's drawings, of the executed design, it also shows the run-down stables next to the Surgeons' building and must have been drawn on the spot by one of Soane's pupils or assistants who would have had only a short walk to reach it.

REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.58a.

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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