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 D5/1/5

Purpose

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

Aspect

[162] Plan of the ceiling with decoration, partly as executed

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

(verso, Dance) R^lColl^e of Surgeons / Design not executed for / Ceiling of Museum

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and raw umber washes, pencil on laid paper, three sheets joined (535 x 1550)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

The coves - Dance calls them soffits - are shown with unexecuted lozenge coffering (as at Cranbury Park and All Hallows church). The ceiling over the gallery is square-coffered with rosettes/paterae.

Level

Drawing

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