Survey drawings related to the acquisition of additional land, 4 August 1801

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Survey drawings related to the acquisition of additional land, 4 August 1801 - 6 January 1803 (6)

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London: (executed) a house for John Soane and six unexecuted schemes for a villa at Acton, 1800-1832 (285)
    - More fully realised designs for Pitzhanger Manor, December 1800 - October 1801 (50)

Purpose

Survey drawings related to the acquisition of additional land, 4 August 1801 - 6 January 1803 (6)

Notes

Drawings 136 to 141 all indicate the strip of land that Soane wished to purchase in order to regularise his estate. This can be seen particularly clearly in drawing 136, where the red line indicates the original boundary of Soane's land, and in drawing 138 and 141, where a line is sketched further out from Soane's stepped border.

Level

Group

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).

Browse

Purpose

Notes

Level

Contents of Survey drawings related to the acquisition of additional land, 4 August 1801 - 6 January 1803 (6)