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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 D5/7/12
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[53] Plan of the Caps of Pilasters, Plan of the Cornice and elevation of the blocking course, pediment, entablature and capitals
Scale
¼ inch to 1 ft
Inscribed
as above and dimensions given
Verso
Elevation and profile of blocking course, entablature and capital, and FS profile of architrave mouldings - as shown on recto
Scale / 1½ In to the Foot and Full size
Inscribed as above, No2 Royal College of Surgeons, Moldings of back front in Portugal Street, labelled including Blocking, Cornice, Frieze, Architrave and Pilaster, NB This Drawing to be / return'd and some dimensions given
Signed: GD
Pen, raw umber and sepia washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer
Blocking course, cornice and abacus were to be of stone, the rest done in stucco. From these details, it does seem as though, the cornice in the perspective drawn for Soane's lecture diagram (see note to [SM D5/7/17]) was a caricature, making Dance's plain but refined mouldings (fillets, corona, cyma reversa) look like a box gutter.
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Pen and sepia wash, pencil, shaded on laid paper (620 x 430)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Level
Drawing
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