Copy of measured drawing

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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 in Italy: measured drawings made or copied, 1778-80
    - Italy: Rome: Farnese Gardens gateway (Orti Farnesiana)

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Reference number

SM 45/5/11

Purpose

Copy of measured drawing

Aspect

Half-elevation of lower storey, and details of Doric base, capital and entablature

Scale

bar scale of Palmi Romani

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, some slight pricking through for transfer on laid paper (504 x 359)

Hand

Soane as copier, the freehand details by Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis in an oval frame with C below (Heawood I No. 1600 Rome n.d.)

Notes

Soane drew in a sketchbook (Sketchbooks catalogue: Miscellaneous Sketches, SM volume 40, f.77verso) an elevation and detail of the Orti Farnese gateway, with some dimensions given that were presumably drawn in situ or copied from another source. There are variations between this measured drawing and the sketchbook drawing; the latter shows two fewer courses of rustication as well as a label over the window and a window ledge. 'In modern times the gate was moved to its present site on Via S. Gregoria, where it now serves as biglitteria' (du Prey, op.cit., p.445, fn.101)

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.111,445, fn.102

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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