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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 D5/3/40
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[152] Section including detail of iron bracket
Scale
Scale ¾ inch to the Foot
Inscribed
as above, labelled Floor of Museum, Springing line of Dome, dimensions given, (verso, Dance) R C of Surgeons / Section of circular ends / of Museum, Section of circular end / of the Museum shewing / the Stone Gallery and (cancelled) Mr Spencer
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Black and red pen, pink, blue, burnt umber and sepia washes, pencil on laid paper (660 x 420)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw IV
Notes
[SM D5/3/33], [SM D5/3/38], [SM D5/3/39] and [SM D5/3/40] more or less correspond though, for example, the width of the radiating blind arches is marked 4 feet 9 inches as well as 4 feet 10 inches. More importantly, Dance increased the number of cantilevers from 10 to 16, at the same time relocating them either side of the 8 inch, or wider, piers rather than anchoring them within the piers. The iron cantilevers are 5 feet 4 inches long, with a depth of 3½, 4½ and 8 inches reflecting the curved section. A slab of Portland stone 6 feet 4 inches long lay on top of the bracket and a slab of York paving below.
Kalman (p.219) notes 'Iron beams had first appeared in English architecture only about a dozen years earlier.... The I-section, on which idea the museum beams are based, was first used at ... the Cotton Twist Mil in Salford, built 1799-1801....The Royal College of Surgeons ranks among the first examples of iron beams employed within a building principally for their strength [rather than for fire-resistance]'.
Kalman (p.219) notes 'Iron beams had first appeared in English architecture only about a dozen years earlier.... The I-section, on which idea the museum beams are based, was first used at ... the Cotton Twist Mil in Salford, built 1799-1801....The Royal College of Surgeons ranks among the first examples of iron beams employed within a building principally for their strength [rather than for fire-resistance]'.
Level
Drawing
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