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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42)
  - Volume 42/101: George Dance (1741-1825): Domed building with colonnade, c.1759-64

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Reference number

SM volume 42/101 recto and verso

Purpose

Preliminary designs

Aspect

(recto) Part-elevation/part-section of a 13-bay building fronted by an Ionic colonnade supporting an entablature and a parapet with sculptured figures, behind which is an eight-bay upper storey fronted by a dome; the section indicates compartments of varying height and a roof truss; detail of a statue shows a plan at about ankle level above bare feet (verso) Section through a coffered dome with a stepped profile and a cupola above a compartment with columns and arched openings, elevation of tempietto with cross, study of a sculpted head

Scale

rough bar scale (pricked for transfer) of ¼ in to 10 ft approximately, detail to a larger scale

Inscribed

(recto) some calculations given (verso) some dimensions and calculations given

Signed and dated

datable to c. 1759-64

Medium and dimensions

(recto) Pencil and sepia wash, shaded, (verso) pencil, pen on laid paper with one fold mark (195 x 130, top left-hand corner cut)

Hand

George Dance (1741-1825)

Watermark

J Ville[dary]

Notes

The design (recto) is unidentified but it is was probably made when Dance was in Italy (1759-64) and may be related to Dance's competition entry for the Parma Academy of 1763.

Literature

J.Lever, Catalogue of the drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) ... from the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, 2003, pp.78²-79¹ (catalogue [18])

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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