[1] Unfinished measured drawing, probably after Thomas Hardwick

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- 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: Colosseum, c. May-June 1778 (6)

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Reference number

SM 45/3/51

Purpose

[1] Unfinished measured drawing, probably after Thomas Hardwick

Aspect

Elevation, incomplete

Scale

1/22 in to 1ft, with bar scale

Inscribed

as above

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil within double ruled border on two joined pieces of laid paper (633 x 983)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Honig & Zoonen and beehive within cartouche

Notes

Soane's sketchbook 'Italian Sketches' 1779 (SM volume 39, 6-8r,9r) has a few details of the Colosseum, but he probably acquired most of his information from Hardwick who made the Colosseum a particular subject of study, commissioning a model and communicating a paper to the Society of Antiquaries. P.du Prey, (J.Lever, editor), Catalogue of the the Drawings Collections of the Royal Institute of British Architects, G-K, 1973, p.92¹ mentions 'two elevations and an ideal sectional reconstruction in John Soane's collection [that] may record the appearance of [lost] Hardwick originals copied ... in the summer of 1778'. Hardwick's drawings at the RIBA Drawings Collection are a plan 'from actual admeasurements / In 1778', and an elevation of one bay inscribed 'Elevation of part of the / Colosseum - 1778 - T.Hardwick', and 'the Model to be made 1/11 [the 11 blotted] of an Inch to a Foot' (SB57/6-7).

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 125-6

Level

Drawing

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