Copy of 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: Venice: Il Redentore

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Reference number

SM 45/4/4

Purpose

Copy of measured drawing

Aspect

Plan, not finished

Scale

to a scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pricked for transfer on laid paper (545 x 400)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within oval frame with CB above (Heawood 1598 Rome 1762)

Notes

Only the essentials of the longitudinal plan are given and there are no inscriptions, scale bar or dimensions given. The Italian-made paper with its distinctive watermark was also used, for example, for six sheets of measured drawings of trusses copied by Soane (see Italy: Trusses for roofs, February 1780).

Soane visited Venice on or around 19 September 1779 (P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, p.364, fn 21) though the drawing could have been copied at another time and place. The Church of the Redentore, dedicated to Christ the Redeemer, was designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-80) and built from 1577 to 1592.

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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