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[2] Copy (?) of a measured drawing
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Reference number
SM 45/3/35
Purpose
[2] Copy (?) of a measured drawing
Aspect
Section, (verso, lightly pencilled) outline of an incomplete plan
Scale
bar scale of 1/7 in to 1 ft
Signed and dated
- Rome Tuesday the 26th of May 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (532 x 722)
Hand
Soane (see note below)
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with bell and C & I Honig below, and IV
Notes
This drawing for the church of San Stefano Rotondo al Celio shares a similar method of presentation, is to the same scale, on the same type of paper and made in the same week as that for Santa Agnese fuori le Mura (q.v.). It is thought to be a copy by Soane from an unidentified source, possibly a compatriot since the scale is English. However, the very precise date is (Professor du Prey suggests, January/February 2009) an indication that Soane carried out the measuring personally rather than copied (see also note to Church of Santa Agnese fuori le Mura).
A large circular church consecrated in the reign of Pope St Simplicius (468-83). It originally consisted of three concentric ambulatories intersected by the four arms of a Greek cross, but the outermost and three arms were pulled down in about 1450.
A large circular church consecrated in the reign of Pope St Simplicius (468-83). It originally consisted of three concentric ambulatories intersected by the four arms of a Greek cross, but the outermost and three arms were pulled down in about 1450.
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.112
Level
Drawing
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