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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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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