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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: Sicily: Syracuse: Greek theatre, 9 June 1779

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Reference number

SM 45/1/6

Purpose

Copy of measured drawing

Aspect

Plan of Theatre at Syracuse, adjacent buildings and road

Scale

in Toise

Inscribed

as above, labelled Subterranean Pass. To Orchest. , The Road w^cgoes over part of the ear theatre, ab^t 80 feet and Catacombe

Signed and dated

June 9^th 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, some pricking through for transfer, on secretary paper with five fold marks (373 x 440)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

C & I Honig, post horn within crowned cartouche and C & I Honig below

Notes

Partly pricked through, drawn to a scale of French toise (about 6.39 feet) and with extraneous information, the drawing is probably a copy. The Greek Theatre probably dates from the Hellenistic period (c.325-31 B.C.). (M. Guido, Sicily: an archaeological guide, 1967, pp.182-4). The 'ear' refers to the famous 'ear' of King Dionysius by which he spied on the imprisoned in the caves below. (Professor du Prey, January/February 2009)

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, p.234
P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, p.140

Level

Drawing

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

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