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- 1805-12
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David Yeomans (correspondence, 2 August 2001) suggests that an arched flitch or trussing piece was proposed since the design shown on [SM D5/6/13] would not work. 'The trussing is clearly shown in the section as well as the elevation. This [Dance] braces at its ends against the straight pieces at the bottom of the beam that runs over the supports. He would need these because any tendency of the beam (and hence also the arched trussing pieces) to sag would result in the trussing pieces thrusting outwards. Thus the flat end pieces act as the skewbacks of the arch. Dance seems uncertain how to make these because he draws two arrangements. In the lower one the beam seems to be supported by iron brackets. He takes care in both arrangements that the minimum of iron shows under the beam by taking the line of the iron up from the soffit of the beam'.
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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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