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Reference number

SM D3/3/3

Purpose

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

Aspect

[8] Front elevation of chimney-piece, as [SM D3/3/2] except that the pedestals are higher and bookshelves are not shown

Scale

1 and 2/10 in (or 12/10 in) to 1 ft

Inscribed

Signed: Geo: Dance Archt

Signed and dated

  • c.1788-94

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, raw umber and crimson washes, shaded on laid paper laid down on (old) board with double-ruled border (410 x 465 on 490 x 585)

Hand

Dance

Notes

On the wall, either side of the chimney-piece, are incised lines ending in a Greek fret that 'Dance invented ... (though) Soane ... was responsible for its subsequent widespread use' (J. Summerson, 'Soane: the case-history of a personal style', Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd series, LVIII, 1951, p.6).

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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