33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- London Houses (9)
  - 33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803 (26). Survey, design and working drawings for alterations and additions

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Reference number

SM D3/5/20, SM D3/5/21

Purpose

33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803

Aspect

[12] and [13] Front elevation and cross-section through roof, and unfinished copy

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

(Carter) The floor is 2 f^t oposite / Center of Bow 1½ ins / between them at Ends, dimensions given including some by Carter, and (verso, Dance) Hill Street / Section of Roof / & / Elevation of front towards Hill Street

Signed and dated

1803

Medium and dimensions

Black and green pen, pencil, raw umber, burnt umber, green earth, light emerald green, light red, pink and sepia washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper, two sheets joined (1100 x 775, 1035 x 760)

Hand

Dance, Carter

Notes

The elevation shows a four (ex-five) bay, three-storey building with attic and basement, the attic above a cornice. Green washes and green pen (an early use?) areas show that the first floor windows were to be enlarged and the roof removed. The section shows a triangular roof truss (shaded) with a shallow pitch, 45..1½ wide and with five hangars. David Yeomans (email, 19 July 2001) commented that there was 'nothing special here that I can see'.

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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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