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

Explore Collections

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

Browse

George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Public buildings (3)
  - 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

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM D5/3/24

Purpose

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

Aspect

[167] Flattened elevation/section through ground floor and gallery of S apse showing an alternative design for the cases and chimney-piece and rough detail of pilaster

Scale

Scale ½ Inch to the Foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled Springing line of Semi Dome, dimensions given, calculations and (verso, Dance) R C of Surgeons / Section in Ledgement of Circular end / of Museum w^h design / of Chimney piece

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil on laid paper (425 x 675)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

Dance has enlarged the cases for specimens and books and the framing panel pilasters have alternative treatments including the addition of guttae. The plain, dark chimney-piece now bears a tablet having a pediment with 'antefixae' or corner-stops, supported by two caryatids and with a roundel between them with the head in bas relief of .JOHN HYNTER.

'Section in Ledgement' refers to the stretching out of the semi-domed ceiling in sectional elevation 'so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained' (OED). Dance uses the same term for a plan of the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Egyptian Hall in the Mansion House and on [SM D5/3/39] here.

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).