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: Capitoline Museum, Piazza del Campidoglio

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Reference number

SM 45/4/11

Purpose

Copy of measured drawing

Aspect

Ground floor plan, not fully drawn out

Scale

bar scale of Palmi

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, pricked for transfer on laid paper (Italian made) (405 x 502)

Notes

The unfinished square plan is symmetrically arranged around a colonnaded courtyard and fronted by a seven-bay arcade with an entrance in the centre. Behind the arcade there are, on each side of the entrance hall, three compartments measuring 20:0 by 29 17/24 and 29 8/12 (sic). The building is 235 Palmi wide. Identified by Professor du Prey (January 2009) as a plan representing the ground floor of the Capitoline Museum on the Capitoline Hill 'but not exactly as carried out. The exterior facade and loggia, of course, copy the design of the Conservators' Palace opposite and both follow the designs of Michelangelo as far as the facades go'.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane, the making of an architect, 1982, p.362 fn.41

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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