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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 D3/14/27
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[64] Three rough alternative elevations of a seven-bay front
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (360 x 555)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
C (?) T
Notes
Verso
Another alternative elevation
Pencil
One elevation (recto) retains the domestic character of the two houses, having front doors emphasised by porches with balconies over, and an order attached to the centre five bays of the first and second floors as well as an attic order. Another, smaller and fainter, elevation shows the centre five bays projecting forward from the pavement to the roof in a way that is reminiscent of Soane's new facade for his house at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, designed later in 1812; though the most interesting solution, it was not developed. Two others (recto and verso) are closer to the executed design having a portico with six Ionic columns. See [SM D5/2/3] verso for a related design with an Ionic portico. A folder inscribed by Dance Sketch of my design / for the Medal at Parma / 1763 with his competition drawings for a public gallery, re-used a sheet with two drawings for the Royal College of Surgeons [SM D4/11/1A]. One is a rough perspective of the Lincoln's Inn front showing a pedimented portico, the other an unfinished part-plan of the basement of the north end of the Hunterian museum, c.1810.
There is in the Royal College of Surgeons Archives (RCS 66/3/17) a finished elevation for the principal front drawn and signed by Dance. It shows a seven-bay, three-storey building with a pedimented Ionic portico of four columns on pedestals.
Another alternative elevation
Pencil
One elevation (recto) retains the domestic character of the two houses, having front doors emphasised by porches with balconies over, and an order attached to the centre five bays of the first and second floors as well as an attic order. Another, smaller and fainter, elevation shows the centre five bays projecting forward from the pavement to the roof in a way that is reminiscent of Soane's new facade for his house at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, designed later in 1812; though the most interesting solution, it was not developed. Two others (recto and verso) are closer to the executed design having a portico with six Ionic columns. See [SM D5/2/3] verso for a related design with an Ionic portico. A folder inscribed by Dance Sketch of my design / for the Medal at Parma / 1763 with his competition drawings for a public gallery, re-used a sheet with two drawings for the Royal College of Surgeons [SM D4/11/1A]. One is a rough perspective of the Lincoln's Inn front showing a pedimented portico, the other an unfinished part-plan of the basement of the north end of the Hunterian museum, c.1810.
There is in the Royal College of Surgeons Archives (RCS 66/3/17) a finished elevation for the principal front drawn and signed by Dance. It shows a seven-bay, three-storey building with a pedimented Ionic portico of four columns on pedestals.
Level
Drawing
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