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: Theatre of Marcellus

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Reference number

SM 45/4/14

Purpose

Copy of measured drawing

Aspect

Unfinished elevation showing the ground and first floors and three bays of a building with semicircular arched openings, with some incomplete details of Doric and angle capitals and soffit

Scale

to varying scales

Inscribed

dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, dimensions in pen on laid paper (Italian made) (389 x 506)

Hand

Soane

Notes

Soane added eccentric dimensions using 1/8 and 1/9 fractions for mouldings of the same capital, which suggests that this is an incomplete copy of a an Italian measured drawing made to Italian scales with the added dimensions roughly converted into English feet and inches. 'Built entirely of travertine on the exterior, and of large tufa blocks and concrete vaults on the interior with partitions faced with reticulate'. It was the second theatre to be built in Rome, largely by Augustus and dedicated 13 B.C. (L.Richardson, New Topographical dictionary of ancient Rome, 1992). The drawing was identified by Professor du Prey (January 2009).

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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