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[6] Copy of measured drawing from an Italian source
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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.
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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