[3] Early rough design by George Dance on a compact plan with pyramidal roof

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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 42/96

Purpose

[3] Early rough design by George Dance on a compact plan with pyramidal roof

Aspect

Sketch two-storey elevation with pyramidal roof on the centre five bays, with a round-arched door flanked by lunette niches and above two-column and four-column 'portico in antis' openings; and with a rough unfinished plan indicating a concave centre

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid secretary paper (263 x 197)

Hand

Previously attributed to John Flaxman , re-attributed to George Dance (1741-1825)

Watermark

presently stuck down and not visible

Notes

Previously attributed to John Flaxman, a fellow Royal Academy student (see P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, p.345 fn.43) the drawing is more likely to have been made by George Dance on the grounds that it relates in design terms to the following drawings (SM volume 42/86 and SM volume 42/88). In this compact design are seen the round-arched entrance and lunette niches of the Moresque design (SM volume 42/90) but nothing else. New is the idea of an entrance front of three bays, the centre coved and fronted by a wide stair, and the upper storey with a 'portico in antis'.

See also SM volume 42/85 (upper one) for a similar design, perhaps a copy of this one.

Level

Drawing

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