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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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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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 D5/7/12

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, N^o2 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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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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