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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  - 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 D5/3/1

Purpose

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

Aspect

[120] Plan of the old Hunterian Museum superimposed on a plan of the new museum and rough part-longitudinal section

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

lettered A B C D, ABCD Plan of the Hunterian Museum / in Leicester Square / or rather / Windmill Street, dimensions of 52^Ft..1ⁱⁿ and 28^Ft..4iⁿ and (verso, Dance) Plan of John Hunters Old Museum / in Leicester Fields / compared with the new Museum / in Lincolns in fields / both drawn to the same scale

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Black and brown pen, light red and sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (485 x 640)

Hand

Dance

Verso

Rough interior perspective of museum Pencil

Watermark

D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below

Notes

Dance's new museum measures 103 by 40 feet compared with the rectangular old one of 52 feet 1 inch by 28 feet 4 inches.

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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