[8] Final design exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1779

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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
    - Preliminary designs, some by George Dance, final design exhibited at the Royal Academy, record drawing, and perspectives by J.M.Gandy and George Bailey, for a British Senate House 1778-1779 and later (16)

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Reference number

SM 13/2/5

Purpose

[8] Final design exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1779

Aspect

THE PRINCIPAL FRONT OF A DESIGN FOR A SENATE HOUSE (in serif capitals within a tablet-like label)

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

(added later, pen) I SOANE FECIT ROMAE and (added later, pencil) MDCCLXXVIII

Medium and dimensions

Pen, light blue, sepia, burnt sienna and black washes, shaded, watercolour technique within double ruled and black wash borders on laid paper, three sheets joined, previously cloth backed (509 x 2550)

Hand

Unidentified ? Italian hand

Watermark

J Honig & Zoonen and cartouche with beehive

Notes

Of the alternative decorative treatments for the front on either side of the central dome, shown by Dance on SM 45/1/13 recto, the giant order and pediments have been preferred. More sculpture has been added including eight handsome freestanding trophies. Dance's design has been closely followed.

The drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy 1779, 308 'Plan, elevation, and section of a British Senate House'.

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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