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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 D5/7/17
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, No.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Lecture IV, 1810 (SM drawer 18/7/17) and was subsequently included (Plate 1, 'Anglo-Grecian architecture') in the unpublished 'An Appeal to the Public occasioned by the suspension of the architectural lectures in the Royal Academy' (1812).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.
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Lecture IV, 1810 (SM drawer 18/7/17) and was subsequently included (Plate 1, 'Anglo-Grecian architecture') in the unpublished 'An Appeal to the Public occasioned by the suspension of the architectural lectures in the Royal Academy' (1812).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.
Level
Drawing
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