[1] Preliminary measured drawings of Santa Maria Maggiore and (verso) of the Temple of Minerva Medica, made in collaboration with Thomas Hardwick, June 1778

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- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane in Italy: measured drawings made or copied, 1778-80
    - Italy: Rome: Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, 16 June 1778 (and of Temple of Temple of Minerva Medica, 19 June 1778) (2)

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SM 45/1/8 recto and verso

Purpose

[1] Preliminary measured drawings of Santa Maria Maggiore and (verso) of the Temple of Minerva Medica, made in collaboration with Thomas Hardwick, June 1778

Aspect

(recto) Rough, incomplete half-plan and part-plans of the church; (verso) Rough plan and part-plans including Upper Plan and part-section of Minerva Medica

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Inscribed

(recto) Baldachino labelled Giallo Antico, Grat^o,Porphyr Col[umn] 2 feet diam^r, Cipoline, Granitello, At the opposite end a Niche, Philip the 4th of Spain and dimensions given; (verso) as above, Great Arch (twice), Statue, dimensions given and calculations

Signed and dated

(recto) June 16, 1778 with M^r Hardwicke and (verso) June 19 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil (verso, with hatching) on coarse laid paper with four fold marks (562 x 438)

Hand

Soane with Thomas Hardwick

Verso

see above

Watermark

Emptor within scrolly cartouche and encircled fleur-de-lis with V

Notes

The preparatory drawing of Santa Maria Maggiore was made with Thomas Hardwick for a finished plan that each drew separately (Hardwick's plan, dated June 1778) and is in the RIBA Drawings Collection (SB 60/12). Thus, the Temple of Minerva was another collaborative effort with Hardwick (see Italy: Rome: Temple of Minerva Medica).

The basilica church of Santa Maria Maggiore was built in the 4th century, reconstructed in the following century and altered and added to since.

Literature

recto: P.du Prey, 'Soane and Hardwick in Rome: a Neo-Classical partnership', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XV, 1972, pp.54,60
recto: P.du Prey, (J.Lever editor), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume G-K, 1973, p.91
recto: P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 113-4
recto: P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.151-4
verso: P.du Prey, 'Soane and Hardwick...', 1972, pp.54, 61
verso: P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.113-4

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