Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [21] Plan for ground floor with alternative front elevatiions

Browse

  • image SM 35/4/25

Reference number

SM 35/4/25

Purpose

[21] Plan for ground floor with alternative front elevatiions

Aspect

Plan of the Principal Floor of proposed Mansion

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Reymundo Putt Esqre, labelled Hall, Butler's Pantry, Water Closet, Closet, Housekeeper's / Room, Plate Closet, Common Stair, Kitchen, MrPutt's Room, Eating Room, Drawing Room, Library, Principal / Staircase and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 00/11/1811
    Novr 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and sepia washes, on wove paper (465 x 566)

Hand

George Basevi (1794 - 1845)
Pupil December 1810 - June 1816.

Notes

Alternative treatments for the portico are given - semicircular with eight colums or rectangular with six columns. A comparison with drawing [20] shows that this plan (at 82 feet) is less wide by 12 feet.

See also drawing [34] for a copy to a larger scale.

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).