Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [3] Survey drawing of front elevation

Browse

  • image Image 1 for SM 46/4/2
  • image Image 2 for SM 46/4/2
  • image Image 1 for SM 46/4/2
  • image Image 2 for SM 46/4/2

Reference number

SM 46/4/2

Purpose

[3] Survey drawing of front elevation

Aspect

Elevation of three storeys and basement front with 14 windows and a door

Scale

to a scale but not given

Inscribed

Clement Hemery (owner)

Medium and dimensions

Pen on wove paper (308 x 326)

Hand

local surveyor

Verso

Rough pencil detail for mouldings

Notes

The house is plain with three rows of five windows: 7 feet, 6.6 feet and 3 feet tall. Dimensions and running dimensions are given. The only ornament is a small keystone to the top of each window and rusticated corners.

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).