[3] Rough circular 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
    - Preliminary, early, intermediate and late designs, copies, perspectives by J.M.Gandy and R.A. exhibition drawing, 1778-1799, for the so-called 'Chatham mausoleum' for the Earl of Chatham died 11 May 1778 (15)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/97

Purpose

[3] Rough circular design

Aspect

Rough unfinished perspective showing a circular building with evenly spaced giant columns rising from a wall punctuated with doors and niches, fronted by a wide stair flanked by two pyramid-roofed pavilions and, on the right, a detail of a ? dome or ? wine glass

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid secretary paper (197 x 319)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

Presently stuck down and not visible

Notes

Margaret Richardson (discussion, February 2008) identified this drawing as a companion to SM 42/122 recto, both of which relate to SM volume 42/172 verso by George Dance. The unfinished drawing of a circular building calls to mind the large roofless drums with engaged columns of Soane's design for a Triumphal Bridge (q.v.).

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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