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Reference number

SM D3/3/7

Purpose

Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, Westminster, c.1788-94

Aspect

[1] Survey plan for library and circular stair (with third drawing room, lobby and powdering room) with Dance's outline design added and faint pencil sketch of Minerva bust

Scale

4/15 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given and calculations

Signed and dated

  • c.1788-94

Medium and dimensions

Pen and light red wash, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper, (old) cloth backed (515 x 985)

Hand

surveyor, Dance

Notes

The brickwork shell of Robert Adam's unfinished library, and the plans of the adjacent rooms, are carefully measured and fully dimensioned. Dance's library plan, like Adam's, is in three parts but instead of Adam's proposed octagonal ends Dance has exedræ of 29 feet diameter, each with five semicircular alcoves, linked by a central gallery.

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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