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Clearly there are several drawings lost from this scheme, as there is only one extant plan for the bedchamber storey (Adam volume 42/107) and none for the other storeys of the house. This bedchamber storey is clearly the third storey shown on the elevation of the house (Adam volume 42/106) as there is no sign of the flanking wings or entrance on the first storey, or of the central balcony on the second storey.
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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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Contents of Finished drawings for a house, c1779, unexecuted (2)
- [1] Finished drawing for a house, c1779, unexecuted
- [2] Finished drawing for a house, c1779, unexecuted