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Reference number
SM D3/7/13
Purpose
6 St James's Square, Westminster, c.1816
Aspect
[5] Front elevation of a more finished design, and wall section indicating storey heights
Scale
¼ in to 1 ft approximately
Inscribed
Marquis of Bristol / 6 S. James's Square and The Earl of Bristol
Signed and dated
- c.1816
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and blue washes, pencil, shaded, pricked for transfer on wove paper (660 x 505)
Hand
Dance
Notes
The middle bay becomes blank again with the Bristol arms and supporters contained in a framed panel at second floor level.
Each successive drawing shows Dance developing more strongly the 'grid' or controlling trace lines on which he composes his design. In the final elevation (assuming that his sequence has been correctly reconstructed) the pencilled intervals of the street railings exactly match those of the first floor balcony and the window guards of the second floor as well as the mullions to the windows of all four floors and the panelled pilasters with brackets on the ground floor, the giant order on the first and second floors and the attic order - everything is centred. The only relief are the narrow panels between the first and second floors carved with a Vitruvian scroll motif and the order that consists only of a pair of waterleaves with a central five-petalled flower.
REPRODUCED. D. Watkin, 'Soane and his contemporaries' in John Soane, [no ed.], 1983, fig.9; D. Stillman, English Neo-classical architecture, 1988, vol.I, fig.132.
NOTES TO [SM D3/7/9], [SM D3/7/11], [SM D3/7/10], [SM D3/7/12] and [SM D3/7/13]
The titles are inscribed in pencil and [SM D3/7/9], [SM D3/7/11], [SM D3/7/10], [SM D3/7/12] seem to have been added later by Dance.
Each successive drawing shows Dance developing more strongly the 'grid' or controlling trace lines on which he composes his design. In the final elevation (assuming that his sequence has been correctly reconstructed) the pencilled intervals of the street railings exactly match those of the first floor balcony and the window guards of the second floor as well as the mullions to the windows of all four floors and the panelled pilasters with brackets on the ground floor, the giant order on the first and second floors and the attic order - everything is centred. The only relief are the narrow panels between the first and second floors carved with a Vitruvian scroll motif and the order that consists only of a pair of waterleaves with a central five-petalled flower.
REPRODUCED. D. Watkin, 'Soane and his contemporaries' in John Soane, [no ed.], 1983, fig.9; D. Stillman, English Neo-classical architecture, 1988, vol.I, fig.132.
NOTES TO [SM D3/7/9], [SM D3/7/11], [SM D3/7/10], [SM D3/7/12] and [SM D3/7/13]
The titles are inscribed in pencil and [SM D3/7/9], [SM D3/7/11], [SM D3/7/10], [SM D3/7/12] seem to have been added later by Dance.
Level
Drawing
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