Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, February 1791 (3)

Browse

Purpose

Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, February 1791 (3)

Notes

Soane offered Mr Hicks Beach alternative designs labelled No1 and No 2 (drawing 12 recto & verso, 13 recto). For the south side, Soane proposed removing the projecting bays and porch and having a six-bay front and re-shaping the dining room so as to give it apsidal ends. The east front was to remain the same while inside, the 'vestibule' was now labelled 'billiard room'. The west front received the most attention with an Ionic portico with four or six columns and, internally, alternative proposals for re-modelling the library (to the north-west) that were developed further in drawing 14; Soane's library was removed in 1946. The elevations for the west front (drawing 13 recto) derive from Soane's preliminary design (drawing 3 verso) with its visual elimination of the first floor by giving it semicircular windows placed over the tall windows of the ground floor, and a giant Ionic order.

Level

Group

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).  


Contents of Alternative designs and designs for alterations and additions to the house, February 1791 (3)