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Drawing. SM 65/3/9. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

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Reference number

SM 65/3/9

Purpose

[5] Alternative design for the temple

Aspect

Elevation; plan; rough plan; and unfinished elevation; (verso) plan of unidentified house

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

9:0 (twice), 1:6, 1:1½, 6:0

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and wash on laid paper (530 x 452)

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

J Whatman and fleur-de-lis over cartouche with W below

Notes

SM 65/3/9 is a preliminary design for the temple as in SM volume 41/67 verso. Pencil alterations were added to SM 65/3/9 to show a variant design with an additional storey, as developed in SM 65/3/13.

The temple is on a hexagonal plan with Doric projections at three corners. SM 65/3/9 has a round stairwell in the centre. Laying-out lines in pencil are included on the drawing, suggesting its use as a preliminary design.

The pencil alterations to SM 65/3/9 include a straight-stair at the back wall, and apsidal ends on those walls facing the Doric projections. A front stair has been added leading to paired Doric columns, suggesting the removal of the entrance to a door between the paired columns; SM 65/3/13 shows such an adjustment, with a window occupying the large front wall and the Doric columns framing doorways. Also in pencil on SM 65/3/9, and developed in SM 65/3/13, is an additional storey comprised of a circular-plan Ionic peripteral arrangement beneath the domed roof. A figurative statue has been added in pencil to the dome's finial in SM 65/3/9 (as in lecture drawing 14/4/3).

This drawing has a rough plan for a temple on a hexagonal plan, with one wall framed by paired columns on canted ends.

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Drawing

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