[9] Rough alternative design by George Dance

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [9] Rough alternative design by George Dance

Browse

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
    - Designs for a 'Castello d'acqua', August 1779-1780, with later rough alternative designs by George Dance (10)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

42/99

Purpose

[9] Rough alternative design by George Dance

Aspect

Rough plan of a semi-oval ? pool with a pair of pavilions, and alternative elevations showing water towers flanking an arch

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (330 x 224)

Hand

George Dance (1741-1825)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

The attribution to George Dance may seem unlikely since between 1778 and 1780 Soane was in Italy and Dance in London. The draughtsmanship is rapid and coarse except for details of the top elevation. The idea of water towers differs from Soane's proposals. These rough drawings may have come out of a post-Italy discussion between the two men.

Level

Drawing

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).