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Reference number

SM 45/4/16

Purpose

[6] Copy of measured drawing from an Italian source

Aspect

Unfinished elevation showing two storeys and three bays of a building , and incomplete details of Doric, Composite and angle orders

Scale

to varying scales of palmi

Inscribed

dimensions given including, for example, Palmi 18.5½

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, dimensions in pen, on laid paper (Italian made) (750 x 505)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within oval frame with CB below (Heawood 1599 Rome 1762)

Notes

Unfinished, in pencil, the sheet roughly laid out and much scrappier than most of Soane's measured drawings. Dimensions are marked P or Palmi which suggests an Italian source for the drawing.

The Concise Catalogue (q.v.) puts this drawing with those of Bagnaia: Villa Lante. The reason is not obvious except that the medium and watermark are the same.

Level

Drawing

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

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