[2] Copy of measured drawings, ? 5-7 May 1780 after Luigi Trezza

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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: Verona: Porta San Zeno (3)

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Reference number

SM 45/2/7

Purpose

[2] Copy of measured drawings, ? 5-7 May 1780 after Luigi Trezza

Aspect

(recto) Half-elevation; (verso) Preliminary design for a casino with a bowed elevation (see - Soane's architectural education...): Alternative designs for a (hunting) casino, c. 1780, SM 45/2/7)

Scale

bar scales of Veronese feet

Inscribed

Porta di San Zeno, faceiata (sic) riguardante la Campagna, labelled Red: brick

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash, pencil on laid paper (519 x 375)

Hand

Soane

Verso

Preliminary design for a casina (q.v.)

Watermark

VF with 3 six-pointed stars above

Notes

The elevations each have a tall semicircular arched entrance flanked by smaller, square-headed doorways; these openings and quoins are rusticated.

See general note regarding Sanmicheli and Luigi Trezza under Italy: Verona: Gran Guardia Vecchia.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.310

Level

Drawing

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

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