Design by an unidentified architect for an unidentified six-part villa in a Classical style, 65 by 65 feet, the basis for variant designs by Dance

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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Reference number

SM D2/8/30

Purpose

Design by an unidentified architect for an unidentified six-part villa in a Classical style, 65 by 65 feet, the basis for variant designs by Dance

Aspect

[1] Ground floor plan of house and offices

Scale

1/5 to 1 ft

Inscribed

N^o2 Plan of Principal Story, rooms labelled including Hall, Vestibule, Library, Drawing Room, Dining Room, Dressing Room and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pricked through on wove paper, two sheets joined (515 x 1140)

Hand

unidentified architect, Dance (verso)

Watermark

A Stace 1801 (twice)

Notes

Verso
Faint reverse copy of plan shown on recto
Inscribed: rooms labelled
Pencil
Drawn and inscribed by Dance
The handed plan on the verso corresponds, more or less, to drawing [SM D2/8/43] for an unidentified six-part villa in a Classical style by Dance.

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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