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Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum
Jill Rosemary Lever
464 pages
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colour plates and b/w figures throughout
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330x245mm
978-1-89-859225-9
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Hardback
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22 January 2004
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- A comprehensive catalogue of an invaluable architectural collection
George Dance (1741-1825) was a pioneering architect who designed the first Neo-Classical building in England (All Hallows, London Wall) as well as the first Indian-style elevation (the City of London's Guildhall), introduced the circus and crescent to London town planning, invented the ammonite capital, designed a prototype art gallery and made early use of structural iron and other technical innovations. As architect to the City of London and a founding member of the Royal Academy, Dance was an establishment figure and yet was considered by his contemporaries as a 'poet
architect' who spoke of an 'Architecture unshackled'. The designs at the Soane Museum include drawings made during Dance's six years in Rome, designs for churches, monuments, prisons, a major hospital, town houses and country houses as well as an art gallery, bank, law court, library, museum, and anatomy theatre. His important role as a town planner and structural innovator is well illustrated and so is his skill as decorator and even garden designer. Dance's eloquent buildings, which include the strikingly austere Newgate Prison, as well as his use of daylight, canopy domes, stripped forms and decoration had a powerful influence on his protege John Soane, who acquired his master's drawings in 1836. They remain in Sir John Soane's Museum, an invaluable record of an exceptional
architect.
The catalogue also includes the drawings of the elder George Dance (1695-1768), architect to the City of London for more than 40 years. His major building, the Mansion House, is unusually well documented and is catalogued here by Sally Jeffery.Readership: Scholars and students of eighteenth and early nineteenth century British architecture; owners, architects, surveyors, engineers, and local historians.
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Jill Rosemary Lever, Independent architectural historian
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"In the pages of this exemplary catalogue we can examine Dance's architectural practice in all its diversity ... This catalogue is an impressive testimony to Lever's scholarship, her discerning eye and, on frequent occasions, her forensic skills." - Burlington Magazine
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Foreword
Preface
General bibliography (including Dance the Elder)
GEORGE DANCE THE YOUNGER (1741-1825)
Biography
Portraits
Provenance of the Dance drawings in the Soane Museum
Colour plates
Juvenilia (c.1757-8)
Italy (1759-64)
Churches
Mausolea and Monuments
Prisons, courts, and a lunatic hospital
Town planning and London Bridge
Some work in the City of London
Public buildings
London houses
Country houses
Dance and Soane
Roof trusses
Unidentified designs for a capital, fittings, a dining room, and stables
Satirical, portrait, and other drawings
Drawings and prints in Dance's collection
Appendices
GEORGE DANCE THE ELDER (1695-1768)
Biography
Designs by George Dance the Elder
Drawings and prints in Dance the Elder's Collection
Mansion House, City of London, catalogue by Sally Jeffery
CONCORDANCES
INDEX
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