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The external perspective shows the south front of the house with a balconied Greek Doric bow to the breakfast room. The east front appears as seen on drawing 15 (dated 1797).
The interior perspective shows the vestibule with a heavily moulded, shallow cross-vault ceiling between two screens each having two Greek Doric columns, fluted except for the bottom 1/5 which is smooth. The walls are ashlar over a plinth and with a frieze set in a panel and at the further end are niches set between pilasters. The result is sober, severe, sephulchral even.
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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 Perspectives of variant designs, January 1807 (3)
- [30] Perspective of variant design, 15 January 1807
- [31] Perspective of variant design, Entrance Hall, 15 January 1807
- [32] Perspective of variant design, Entrance Hall, 15 January 1807