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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 42/131: John Soane (1753-1837) : Domed public building

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Reference number

SM volume 42/131

Purpose

Sketch design

Aspect

Rough part-elevation of a domed building with a seven-bay centre and wings of the same width (the right-hand side unfinished) of one and half storeys with another storey in the drum of the dome

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (122 x 269)

Hand

Soane

Notes

The impression from this unfinished elevation, drawn in feint pencil, is of a low, wide building with a dome and roofline furnished with statues; the dome ornamented with festoons. Perhaps related to another rough and unfinished elevation for a domed building in this volume (42/119) which may be associated with Soane's design for a British Senate House see (Soane's architectural education ...): Preliminary designs, some by George Dance, final design exhibited at the Royal Academy, reduced copies, and perspectives by J.M.Gandy and George Bailey, for a British Senate House 1778-9 and later (16).

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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