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The relationship of house to park is shown most clearly in drawing 118, which also includes the Dance wing. This plan is thought to be very close to the final arrangement of the landscaped park, although as Virginia Brilliant's TS catalogue notes, the driveway was eventually to approach the house from the north-east rather than from the east, the stables were not executed as shown and the ruins are not yet suggested. The maker of drawing 118 does go into a fair amount of detail, labelling particular plants and the lawn - in the light of this it seems possible that John Haverfield may have been involved with some aspect of this plan.
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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 Designs for the outbuildings and park, 9 March 1801, c. March 1801 (2)
- [117] Design for the outbuildings and park, c. March 1801
- [118] Design for the outbuildings and park, 9 March 1801