[9] Rough design by George Dance closer to the final design

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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's architectural education including theoretical designs made for the Royal Academy Schools and for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1770-80, and in Italy, 1778-80
    - Rough preliminary designs, some attributed to George Dance, and design 'for a Mausoleum to the Memory of James King drowned June 9. 1776' , 1776-7, with J.M.Gandy perspectives, 1799-1800 (19)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/93

Purpose

[9] Rough design by George Dance closer to the final design

Aspect

Elevation of a central domed building on an octagonal principal storey flanked by pyramidal pavilions, all sharing the same base that has bold round-arched openings and niches

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, shaded on laid secretary aper (120 x 258)

Hand

George Dance (1741-1825)

Watermark

Presently stuck down and not available

Notes

Set in a landscape with trees, and with minutely drawn staffage that includes a horse and rider, the draughtsmanship is George Dance's rather than Soane's; the design is moving towards a final resolution.

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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