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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 42/71: unidentified hand: Decorative motifs

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Reference number

SM volume 42/71

Purpose

Tracing of details

Aspect

Rough details of six ornamental motifs: bell-flower drop with urn; drop with concave-sided diamond, rinceau, calyx and bell-flower; quatrefoil enclosing a concave-sided diamond and rosette; drop with peltoid shield, olive leaf sprigs, bell-flower and rinceau; figure-of-eight husk festoon with rosette; drop with palmette, scrolls and calyx

Medium and dimensions

Pen on tracing paper (291 x 218)

Hand

traced by Soane

Notes

The asymmetrical panels are an odd shape and vary in height. It is difficult to imagine their purpose and where they might go. Perhaps these are the side supports for a piece of furniture.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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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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