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 D5/3/25

Purpose

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

Aspect

[186] Incorrect perspective of museum from the N end

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen within single ruled border on laid paper (425 x 340)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw

Notes

The drawing appears to be incorrect since it shows a cross-vault over the foreground (that is, the north apsidal bay) and shows the south apsidal wall with a chimney-piece, as flat. Drawn in outline, it relates to a record drawing (Royal College of Surgeons Library, 317) by William Cliff (Hunterian Museum curator 1800-42) made before 1834, that was drawn from the same viewpoint and reproduces the same mistakes. The drawn-in floorboards help to set up the single-point perspective for a surprisingly clumsy drawing that seems to be in Dance's hand.

Kalman (p.376, n.50) notes that 'The juxtaposition of a groined vault and dome in the drawing resembles, probably coincidentally, Soane's Bank Stock Office.'

There is a folder enclosing the drawings and engravings for Combe Bank that is part of a sheet with an unfinished interior perspective of the museum. Drawn to a larger scale with some setting-up lines, it shows an apsidal end with three semicircular-arched openings fronted by two piers.

Level

Drawing

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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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