Sketch design

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Sketch design

Browse

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 42/116 : John Soane (1753-1837): Country house in a Palladian style

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Reference number

SM volume 42/116

Purpose

Sketch design

Aspect

Rough plan with rectangular centre and with service wings on an upward curve. The elevation is fronted by a pedimented four-column portico in antis and below (feint pencil) a further elevation with a differently proportioned four-column portico and re-arranged colonnade to the service wings

Inscribed

labelled Parterre and Green H.[ouse] twice

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and pencil, hatched on laid paper with one fold mark (396 x 250)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

n/a pasted down

Notes

Soane's variant schemes for a villa with quadrant service wings fronted by covered walkways, and with pavilion ends cannot be associated with any of his executed works. The designs are surprisingly conservative.See also 42/105, 106, 115, 145, 146 for alternative designs

Level

Drawing

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

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).