[41] Design including a shrine opposite the chimneypiece

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
    - Library
      - Bookcases, shrine, panelling, fixings

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B13

Purpose

[41] Design including a shrine opposite the chimneypiece

Aspect

Plan and elevation of bookcase with a shrine

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

The Marq: of Buckingham, Stowe, Compartment opposite the Chimney - (Gothic Library) / to contain Shrine, Shrine, width of Door between rebates, dimensions given - 3.0 and 1:1 and small calculations

Signed and dated

1805
1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow and sepia washes, on laid paper (673 x 560)

Hand

Soane office

Level

Drawing

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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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