[2] Measured drawing

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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: Villa Albani, via Salaria (now Villa Torlonia) (2)

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Reference number

SM 45/3/43

Purpose

[2] Measured drawing

Aspect

Part-plan of ground floor, not finished

Scale

bar scale of 1/17 in to 1 ft

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil within single ruled border on laid paper (526 x 725)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

J Honig & Zoonen and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with bell, and JH&Z below

Notes

The Villa was built by Carlo Marchionni (1702-86) for Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), and was completed in 1764. An aspect of the design that particularly interested Soane was the saloon or gallery that with other rooms, well lined with alcoves, housed the Cardinal's collection of classical sculpture arranged by Johann Winckelmann in 1765.

A further sheet of drawings with a plan and three elevations of the saloon and a plan of the piano nobile of the Villa Albani, made by Soane, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (Box A131, no.3436.189 recto and verso. See P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 5).

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-1780, 1977, pp.272-4
D.Watkin, 'Sir John Soane's Grand Tour: its impact on his architecture and his collections', C.Hornsby, ed., The Impact of Italy: the Grand Tour and beyond, British School at Rome, 2000, pp.109-110

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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