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  • image SM D3/3/7

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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