[5] Presentation drawing showing an alternative design, 1791

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Public buildings
  - London: unexecuted design for an opera house to be built on the site of the garden of Leicester House, 1790, 1810 (11)

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Reference number

SM 14/3/4

Purpose

[5] Presentation drawing showing an alternative design, 1791

Aspect

Perspective of design N^o4, showing a ground floor arcade forming the basement for a Corinthian colonnade that extends the length and sides of the buliding between the three-bay corners, with a recessed attic stage rising from behind

Inscribed

as above, (upper case) Design for the Opera House proposed to be built on the site of Leicester House and Garden

Signed and dated

John Soane Arch 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and coloured washes within triple-ruled black and grey wash border on wove paper (1144 x 718)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The building is on a regular rectangular plan with shouldered corners. It is a different form from SM 14/3/1, SM 14/3/2 and SM 14/3/3, having a colonnade surmounting the rusticated arcade.

This drawing, SM 14/3/2 and SM 14/3/3 were later used for Soane's Royal Academy Lecture series, in lectures 2 and 3. SM 14/3/2 is on a thicker piece of wove paper, usually the type of sheet used for Soane's lecture drawings. That drawing may have been produced especially for Soane's lectures in the 19th century, but the others appear to be originally produced in 1791 and altered (borders and titles made) for presentation at the lecture.

Level

Drawing

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