Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Alternative design, finished drawing and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, pre-1769 and 1769, Adam volume 22/52-53 thought to be executed with alterations (3)

Browse

Purpose

Alternative design, finished drawing and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, pre-1769 and 1769, Adam volume 22/52-53 thought to be executed with alterations (3)

Notes

The drawing room at Alnwick was clover leaf-shaped, and decorated in pink, green and white. According to Harris, Adam volume 22/51 predates Adam’s work at Alnwick, and is not known to have been executed. However, Adam volumes 22/52-53 are thought to show the executed chimneypiece design, albeit with an alternative frieze. The executed chimneypiece included a neo-classical frieze, calling the overall decorative style of the room into question. The eighteenth-century interior of this room was demolished by Sir Anthony Salvin in the 1850s.

Level

Group

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).  


Contents of Alternative design, finished drawing and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, pre-1769 and 1769, Adam volume 22/52-53 thought to be executed with alterations (3)