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Dance's designs were only partly carried out and at a much later date than intended: the 'London Amphitheatre' on the site of Bethlehem Hospital was built as Finsbury Circus in c.1812 and one of the broad streets was built as Moorgate Street in the 1830s. Nevertheless, Soane designed Tivoli Corner in expectation of the proposed street improvements. The Bank's north-west corner was designed as a focal point of the new cityscape.
Literature. D.Stroud, George Dance, architect, 1741-1825, 1971, chapter 7, 'The Development of the Finsbury Estate', pp.124-140
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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.
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).
Contents of Corporation of London city planning, 1800-1808 (7)
- [1] Engraved plan for street improvements proposed by the Corporation of the City of London to George Dance's designs, with alterations and notes by Soane, 1803
- [2] Engraved plan for street improvements proposed by the Corporation of the City of London to George Dance's designs, with alterations and notes by Soane, 1803
- [3] Engraved plan for street improvements proposed by the Corporation of the City of London to George Dance's designs, with alterations and notes by Soane, 1803
- [4] Street improvements proposed by the Corporation of the City of London to George Dance's designs, 1801
- [5] Street improvements proposed by the Corporation of the City of London to George Dance's designs, 1801
- [6] Alternative design for the site of Moorfields and Bethlehem Hospital, for the improvements proposed by the Corporation of the City of London to George Dance's designs, 20 October 1808
- [7] Alternative street improvements, April 1800