[2] Alternative interior perspective design for library

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
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Reference number

SM volume 59/121

Purpose

[2] Alternative interior perspective design for library

Aspect

View of a Design for the Gothic Library at Stowe

Inscribed

as above and The Marquiss of Buckingham

Signed and dated

28/01/1805
Lincoln Inns Field Jan^y 28^th 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, sepia and blue washes, with muti-ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (313 x 488)

Hand

Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809)

Notes

Both designs have three windows and a chimneypiece. Differences (which are not very great) lie in the details of Gothic ornament so that, for example, drawing [2] has the addition of a vertical shrine opposite with the same canopy as the chimneypiece.

The office Day Book (29 January 1805) notes that as well as a plan and section, two 'perspective views' were sent to the Marquis of Buckingham. The drawings catalogued here are likely to be copies of those perspectives.

M.McCarthy's article: 'Soane's 'Saxon' Room at Stowe', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (volume XLIV, May 1985, pp.129-146) states that the second design was preferred.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Giving Our Past a Future: The Work of the World Monuments Fund Britain, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 26 October 2012 - 26 January 2013

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

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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.

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