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- 1802-08
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full size detail of capping, to be executed in wood?
Inscribed: Capping of Piers the same molding as the Stone and labelled Capping the same, Molding and size / as the Stone capping
Black and brown pen, pencil
The detail of a capping with roundel was drawn by Dance. The unfinished, indeed hardly begun, layout plan for a lead water pipe in a area around the office was also drawn by Dance. He joined two sheets together to make the drainage plan, using the verso of his full-sze capping detail. He then used the side of the joined drawing sheets with the drainage plan to make an unfinished drawing for a semi-circular arch that Carter labelled 'Opening of Center Arch' as well as adding some details.
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).