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- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
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In style, the drawing is similar to others on this page and the one before it, and in format, it tallies with three on this page and one on the previous one, in depicting half the capital and part of the shaft. It is executed in the same tone of ink as two others on this page (Drawings 2 and 5), and, like them, shows the right half of the capital, which suggests that the three were the earliest executed on the page and perhaps derive from the same drawn source. They again depart from the more elaborate compositional conventions employed elsewhere in the codex, and so probably date from a rather later phase in production.
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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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