[21] Pictorial record drawing (made 1827 or later) by an unidentified hand of the Royal Academy Gold Medal competition design of 1776

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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
    - Design for a Triumphal Bridge for the Royal Academy Schools Gold Medal competition 1776, later revised and sent to the Parma Academy, 1780, with preliminary designs by George Dance, 1776 and ? 1778, and later copies and perspectives, 1796-c.1827 (21)

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Reference number

SM P92

Purpose

[21] Pictorial record drawing (made 1827 or later) by an unidentified hand of the Royal Academy Gold Medal competition design of 1776

Aspect

Bird's eye view of Triumphal Bridge in an urban setting

Inscribed

Frame inscribed DESIGN FOR A TRIUMPHAL BRIDGE (SIR JOHN SOANE 1776)

Medium and dimensions

Watercolour, framed, dimensions not available

Hand

unidentified (see notes)

Watermark

1827

Notes

All the other perspectives of Soane's triumphal bridge designs show them isolated in a landscape setting. Here, the previous lack of embankments, roads, and the buildings of a large city have been amply supplied together with staffage including boats and bollards. A search through the SM Office Day Books for 1827 has not revealed an author for the drawing. C.J.Richardson (1809-72) is a possible candidate; he was in the Soane office from 1824 to 1837, but a search under his name through the Day Books to 30 January 1830 reveals nothing.

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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