[2] Finished measured drawing of the south-west corner of the 17-bay palazzo

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- 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: Palazzo Vidoni Caffarelli (formerly Stoppani), 28 November 1779 (2)

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Reference number

SM 21/7/4

Purpose

[2] Finished measured drawing of the south-west corner of the 17-bay palazzo

Aspect

Elevation of five bays

Inscribed

La facciata del Palazzo Stoppani Roma

Signed and dated

Nov^r28^th 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw sienna, warm sepia and black washes, shaded, pencil within (added) quadruple ruled pen and wash (grey, black) border on laid paper (492 x 704)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR below

Notes

The finished elevation shows the end five bays of a 17-bay, three-storey building with a rusticated ground floor, piano nobile with a coupled Tuscan order and pilastered attic. It is filed with other drawings of Italian Renaissance palaces prepared from 1806 (by office hands) for Soane's Royal Academy lectures. The drawing, dated 28 November 1779, was made in Rome by Soane and subsequently used as a demonstration drawing (lecture V, drawing 33). The border, colour washes and shading are added by an office hand.

The Vidoni Caffarelli palace, built in about 1515 and Raphaelesque in style, has been attributed to Lorenzo Lotti. The original facade was seven bays wide and two storeys high and has since been enlarged and now has 17 bays and an attic storey. As it happens, Soane did not measure and draw the early part of the palace but a mid-seventeenth century addition on the corner of the Via del Sudario and the Piazza Vidoni.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.270-1, 521-2 fn.12
D.Watkin, Sir John Soane: the Royal Academy lectures, Cambridge, 2000, pp.332, 560-1

Level

Drawing

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