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Reference number

SM 45/4/14

Purpose

[5] Copy of measured drawing from an Italian source

Aspect

Unfinished elevation showing the ground and first floors and three bays of a building with semicircular arched openings, with some incomplete details of Doric and angle capitals and soffit

Scale

to varying scales of ? Palmi

Inscribed

dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, dimensions in pen on laid paper (Italian made) (389 x 506)

Hand

Soane

Notes

Soane added dimensions such as 17/8, 13/4 and, for example, used 1/8 and 1/9 fractions for mouldings of the same capital.

The Concise Catalogue (q.v.) puts this drawing with those of Bagnaia: Villa Lante, but the reason is not obvious though the medium and support are the same.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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