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Nicholas Stone the Younger (d. 1647), Sketchbook containing drawings of buildings in France and Italy, plans, elevations, sections and details of churches, palazzi and villas in Paris, Florence and Rome; also An abstract/of the Journal of Nicolas Stone, a draft of a letter to his uncle of March 1646, accounts dated April 1647 and notes relating to transactions with Henry Wilson for quantities of stone from March 1646 to June 1647,1638-47 (70 leaves). Insc: (on spine) Nicol: Stone/Drawings, (title page) J Paine Jnr Archt 1776 and (p.2) This book did belong to Nicholas Stone Junior/he took it with him, wherein he made the/— of his travels he set out/from England 1638 travelled thro' France Italy etc/and was returned 1642 and died 1647 was buried/by his father in St Martins Church in the Fields. London. Marbled boards, leather spine (305 x 195)
Drawing. SM volume 93/25. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
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Reference number
Vol 93/25
Purpose
Nicholas Stone the Younger (d. 1647), Sketchbook containing drawings of buildings in France and Italy, plans, elevations, sections and details of churches, palazzi and villas in Paris, Florence and Rome; also An abstract/of the Journal of Nicolas Stone, a draft of a letter to his uncle of March 1646, accounts dated April 1647 and notes relating to transactions with Henry Wilson for quantities of stone from March 1646 to June 1647,1638-47 (70 leaves). Insc: (on spine) Nicol: Stone/Drawings, (title page) J Paine Jnr Archt 1776 and (p.2) This book did belong to Nicholas Stone Junior/he took it with him, wherein he made the/— of his travels he set out/from England 1638 travelled thro' France Italy etc/and was returned 1642 and died 1647 was buried/by his father in St Martins Church in the Fields. London. Marbled boards, leather spine (305 x 195)
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, Yale Center for British Art, 15 February - 27 May 2018; The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rareties of the Known World, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 23 June - 23 September 2018
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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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