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[3] Part-elevation/section of south wall and part-plan of east and central bays; section through one of the smaller domes and columnar screen, April/May 1787
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Reference number
SM volume 57/33
Purpose
[3] Part-elevation/section of south wall and part-plan of east and central bays; section through one of the smaller domes and columnar screen, April/May 1787
Aspect
Part-elevation/section of south wall and part-plan of east and central bays; section through one of the smaller domes and columnar screen, labelled: over the Columns / Sphinxes / Etruscan Vases; detail of a bird in flight (also in drawings 1 and 2 and wreathed on drawing 5) labelled Santi Apostoli which suggests that the source was a second-century AD bas-relief of an eagle in the portico of SS Apostoli in Rome (engraved by G.B. Piranesi, Vasi candelabri ..., 1778)
Scale
to the same scale as drawing 1
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- April 1787 - May 1787
datable to Apri/May 1787 (see notes in group folder)
Medium and dimensions
brown pen on laid paper (184 x 299)
Drawings 1-6 are on the same type of thin laid paper, each with three or four fold marks. All of the drawings are pasted into an album with (blue) sugar paper leaves (volume 57)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane
Soane
Watermark
not available (affixed at corners and edges)
Literature
For further reading see J. Lever, 'The Soane-Dance collaboration, 1771-1799', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 53, pp.163-190
Level
Drawing
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk