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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: Pantheon (later Church of Santa Maria ad Martyres), 1778 (8)

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Reference number

SM 45/3/52

Purpose

[1] Measured drawing

Aspect

Ground floor plan

Scale

bar scale in English feet of 1/8 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and black wash within triple ruled and black wash border on laid paper (991 x 631)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Honig & Zoonen and beehive within cartouche

Notes

This plan, drawn to a larger scale than the other drawings in the set (SM 45/3/42, SM 45/3/54, SM 45/3/41 and SM 45/3/53), is the result of Soane's own measuring. See in Sketchbooks catalogue: 'Italian Sketches', 1779 (SM volume 39, f.41r) for rough elevation and section, and also see in Sketchbooks catalogue: 'Miscellaneous Sketches' 1780-2,(SM volume 40, ff.80v, 73v) for plan and section of chambers above portico, and detail of domed ceiling.

The Pantheon was, and is, for architects, the key building of ancient Rome. First built in 25BC by Marcus Vispanis Agrippa, it was rebuilt on a circular plan (the portico with its inscription being re-used) by Hadrian in A.D.120-5. And consecrated as a church in 608.

Literature

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.64-5
P.du Prey, (J.Lever editor), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume G-K, 1973, p.92²
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.117-9

Level

Drawing

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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.

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