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- c.1771?
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watercolour technique, shaded within single ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (275 x 1305)
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The house consists of a three-storey centre of five bays with a canted centre bay and two-storey wings. It is fronted by a wall with a four-columned Doric porte-cochere flanked by blind pavilions with twin aediculed alcoves while pilasters, two solid gates and pavilion ends further articulate this long screen wall. Dance has drawn a horse and carriage passing through the porte-cochere in front of a plain, solid door. An initial impression is that this might be a design for a screen to an existing house and certainly the wall is the point of the drawing and suggests a household requiring seclusion.
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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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