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[2] Measured drawing made with Thomas Hardwick
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Reference number
SM 20/9/6
Purpose
[2] Measured drawing made with Thomas Hardwick
Aspect
Section, not complete
Scale
bar scale of 1/9 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
dimensions given
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and raw umber washes, pen on laid paper backed with wove paper (725 x 534)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
J Honig & Zoonen and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with bell below and JH
Notes
There is an almost identical section of the Temple of Minerva by Thomas Hardwick in the RIBA Drawings Collection (SC53/13) dated 1777 as well as plans (SB60/10) dated June 1778. Soane's other drawing of the Temple (on the verso of a drawing of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, 45/1/8verso, q.v.) is dated 19 June 1778. In any case, a further example of a joint Hardwick-Soane measured drawing exercise.
A ten-sided (effectively circular) domical building of concrete faced with brick and with an internal diameter of 82.1 feet. 'Now believed to be the remains of a spectacular nymphaeum of the second half of the third century' (L.Richardson, jr, A New topographical dictionary of ancient Rome, Baltimore, 1992)). A nymphaeum was a pleasure building with plants and running water, ornamented with statues.
A ten-sided (effectively circular) domical building of concrete faced with brick and with an internal diameter of 82.1 feet. 'Now believed to be the remains of a spectacular nymphaeum of the second half of the third century' (L.Richardson, jr, A New topographical dictionary of ancient Rome, Baltimore, 1992)). A nymphaeum was a pleasure building with plants and running water, ornamented with statues.
Literature
P.du Prey, 'Soane and Hardwick in Rome: a Neo-Classical partnership', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XV, 1972, pp.61-2
P.du Prey, (J.Lever editor), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume G-K, 1973, p.923
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 113-4
P.du Prey, (J.Lever editor), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume G-K, 1973, p.923
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp. 113-4
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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