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

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- London Houses (9)
  - Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, Westminster, c.1788-94 (9). Survey, design and presentation drawings for a library for 1st Marquess of Lansdowne

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Reference number

SM D3/7/3

Purpose

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

Aspect

[6] Elevation of wall panel

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(verso) Arabesque pannel

Signed and dated

c.1788-94

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, sepia, warm sepia, light red, raw umber, burnt umber, blue, scarlet and green washes on laid paper, two pieces joined (400 x 195)

Hand

Dance

Verso

Rough upward perspective of semicircular arch between gallery and exedra (cut). Pencil.

Notes

[SM D3/7/2] and [SM D3/7/3] are, in fact, a single drawing that has been cut in half. Previously unidentified, their style and details correspond to what is shown on [SM D3/3/1] verso and [SM D3/3/5]. The panels are in a Pompeian style and each contains two lunettes, one with a lion and the other with a lioness, and hanging baskets of flowers as well as a rectangular panel each with a dancing female figure. Alternatively designed garlands, drops and drapery fill the spaces in between, and variations of Greek meander decorate the frieze.

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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