Tracing of design, not finished

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42)
  - Volume 42/70: unidentified hand : Gothic choir stalls

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Reference number

SM volume 42/70

Purpose

Tracing of design, not finished

Aspect

Plan of a stall with its misericord, and perspective of choir stall canopies

Scale

to a scale (plan)

Inscribed

some dimensions given (plan)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, trace lines on laid paper with four fold marks (328 x 200)

Hand

unidentified (? hand of 42/38)

Watermark

crowned GR

Notes

The plan of the stall is neatly drawn with straight edge and compass but the elaborate crocketed and quatrefoiled gables of the choir stalls, despite the use of trace lines, are poorly drawn suggesing a hand unused to Gothic. A similar subject, a design in an inventive Gothic style for a throne and canopy (42/38) may be in the same hand as the one that drew the plan on the drawing catalogued here.

Level

Drawing

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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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