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 D5/8/13

Purpose

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

Aspect

[85] Plan, front and side elevation of Ionic column, profile of entablature

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

QUÆ (on frieze)

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Black and blue pen, blue wash, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (620 x 250)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The Ionic order is taken from J. Stuart & N. Revett, Antiquities of Athens (volume 1,1762, chapter 11, plates 1-VIII, Temple of Ilissus,), of which Dance owned a copy. There are variations: principally, Dance chose not to have fluted shafts and he also changed the base, preferring the more conventional torus mouldings either side of a scotia to the single torus with a wide and unusual concave moulding of the original. (See Straton Park, [SM D1/4/32] for a similar base.) Here, the shaft is 25 feet ½ inch high and the width 3 feet 3 inches at the bottom and 2 feet 9 inches at the top.

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Drawing

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