[6] Copy (after an Italian draughtsman) of measured details of entablatures to the Pantheon

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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 45/4/6

Purpose

[6] Copy (after an Italian draughtsman) of measured details of entablatures to the Pantheon

Aspect

Entablature to the Principal Order in the Rotonda / Rome and Entablature to the Great door in the Portico of the Rotonda

Scale

bar scale of Roman palmi (see note below)

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil within single ruled border on laid paper (473 x 691)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below

Notes

Made to a scale of Roman palmi, this drawing (and SM 45/5/9) have dimensions added and some are inaccurate so that, for example, a moulding marked 9¾ (inches) is larger than one marked 10 3/8.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.119

Level

Drawing

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