Preliminary measured drawings and measured drawing (3)

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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 in Italy: measured drawings made or copied, 1778-80
    - Italy: Rome: Church of Sant' Andrea del Vignola, via Flamina, 30 November 1779 (3)

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Reference number

SM volume 42/17, 45/1/3, 45/2/22

Purpose

Preliminary measured drawings and measured drawing (3)

Aspect

1 Preliminary half-plan and detail of entablature and (verso) details of 2 entablatures
2 Preliminary half-section, plan of wall and detail of coffering over altar and (verso) slight detail of column and balustrade3 Plan and cross section titled La Pianta, e lo Spaccato della Chiesa di San Andrea , fuori della Porta / del Popolo, fabricata da Vignola

Scale

(3) bar scales of (section) 3/8 in to 1 ft (plan) 3/16in to 1 ft

Inscribed

(1-2) dimensions given (3) as above, little door and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(3) Adi (anno domini) 30 Nov^re 1779

Medium and dimensions

(1-2) Pencil (drawing 1 with trial dabs of sepia and pink washes) on thin laid paper, (3) pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil within single ruled border on laid paper (275 x 200, 275 x 400, 704 x 493)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

(1-2) dove on monti within a circle and F above (Heawood 166, 168), (3) fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with bell and C & I Honig below

Notes

The church with its graceful oval dome was dedicated to St Andrew and named for its architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-73). It was completed in 1553.

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.270

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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