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Reference number

SM D2/8/20

Purpose

Variant preliminary designs for an unidentified villa in a late Gothic style, 80 feet by 51 feet

Aspect

[3] Front elevation of five-bay, three-storey villa with four-storey lantern tower, 84 ft wide

Scale

1/8 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil on wove paper, affixed to [SM D2/8/21] (185 x 280)

Hand

Dance

Notes

This design is Classically proportioned but with four-centred windows, tripled in the centre, and a wide porte-cochere. Four turrets articulate the flat-fronted facade behind which rises a rectangular lantern tower.

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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