[2] Copy (?) of a measured drawing

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane in Italy: measured drawings made or copied, 1778-80
    - Italy: Rome: Church of San Stefano Rotondo al Celio, 26 May 1778 (2)

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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 26^thof 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.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.112

Level

Drawing

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