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The drawing is for the grounds at Tyringham and includes the new house, office court, stables block and greenhouse. Farm buildings are shown with diagonal hatching, rather than pink wash, perhaps indicating that they are proposed buildings. A kitchen yard and orchard are beside the office court. Beyond, to the east, lies the stables court surrounded by the proposed farm buildings. A larger kitchen garden lies to the north and contains a greenhouse. Forest paths connect the house to the kitchen garden and poultry yard, passing the 'Garden kept Grounds' that are surrounded by a ha-ha.
See drawings 129 and 131 for more designs by John Haverfield the younger. Haverfield served as the Royal Gardener at Kew.
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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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