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Reference number

SM 45/3/41

Purpose

[4] Copy of a Thomas Hardwick measured drawing

Aspect

Section through rear facade (copy of Thomas Hardwick's drawing)

Scale

bar scale of 1/9 in to 1 ft

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light raw umber and light pink washes, pencil within triple ruled and umber wash border on laid paper (633 x 987)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Honig & Zoonen and beehive within cartouche

Notes

This plan is a copy of a Thomas Hardwick's drawing. The RIBA Drawings Collection holds Hardwick's drawings of the Pantheon (SA26/7 and SA69/2(1-8).

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk