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Reference number

SM D4/10/4

Purpose

143 Piccadilly and Hamilton Place Mews, Westminster, 1807-08

Aspect

[3] Sketch revised plans of Piccadilly plot in a letter addressed to G. Dance Esq that reads Sir / On the receipt of Sir Nat Hollands / Plan. I desired the dementions of / the out line to be examined which / as that delivered to me does not agree / with yours. I have at ---- (illegible) the / dementions which will show the difference / and request you will order the Plan / to be re-examined / I am Sir / your ob st / (illegible N Leicester?) / Tuesday / 29 Nov 180 / my dementions / 156:7, Mr Dances / 158:2 (that is a discrepancy of 1 ft 5 in). Turn Over (verso) If a day is (illegible) by you (illegible) / order the Clerk of Works to / attend to the outline of the / (illegible) and stables

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • 1807-08

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on wove paper, folded with traces of red sealing wax (185 x 225)

Hand

N. Leicester?

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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