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Reference number

SM D5/3/27

Purpose

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

Aspect

[135] Two 'incorrect' preliminary sections through two and three levels of the museum with clerestory roughly drawn in over the lanterns

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

(verso, Dance) Section / Museum / incorrect

Signed and dated

  • 1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, yellow wash, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (485 x 675)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

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

Notes

Floor heights vary from those shown on [SM D5/3/19] (to which this drawing is related) and one section varies the widths between piers producing larger apses, a rhythm that was not adopted. Both drawings show, for example, lantern roofs that are conical or (over the apses) half-conical though [SM D5/3/27] (recto and verso) has rough proposals for a clerestory that, if carried out, would have radically altered the proportions and lighting of the museum. In any case, the half-conical lanterns over the apsidal ends were not executed.

Verso
Rough interior perspective, preliminary setting-out for interior perspective/section and rough detail showing a clerestory
Pencil

Level

Drawing

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