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
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  - 33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803 (26). Survey, design and working drawings for alterations and additions

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Reference number

SM D3/5/8

Purpose

33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803

Aspect

[14] Section, plans and details of queen-post roof truss

Scale

Scale ½ Inch to the Foot (faint pencil)

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

1803

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, burnt umber, sepia and yellow washes, shaded, pencil on wove paper (280 x 665)

Hand

Dance

Notes

Though not labelled Hill Street, the roof truss is the same span as that shown on [SM D3/5/20] and [SM D3/5/21] and must be an alternative design. As with other drawings for roof trusses by Dance, it is clearly and fully drawn with the different members distinguished by different washes and by shadows. David Yeomans (email, 19 July 2001) commented that 'what is interesting about this is the apparent use of iron fasteners at the feet of the queen posts'.

Verso
Rough elevation of a pyramid tomb and rough details of beams
Pencil
This is perhaps related to Dance's scheme for a monument to George Washington made in 1800; Dance began working on Hill Street from about 2 June 1803.

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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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