Designs for two chimney-pieces of brown, green, white and black marble

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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 42/118: unidentified hand: Chimney-pieces

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Reference number

SM volume 42/118

Purpose

Designs for two chimney-pieces of brown, green, white and black marble

Aspect

Elevations, the jambs and mantel decorated (left) with fluting, bosses and label, and (right) cabled fluting (for the jambs) and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, green and burnt umber washes, watercolour technique, shaded, on laid paper with one fold mark (234 x 398)

Hand

unidentified

Watermark

n/a pasted down

Notes

The variant designs share the same mantelshelf, lining and plinth block. The first (left) relies on the geometry of tapered, fluted pilasters crowned by a boss while the other (right) adds cables to the fluting of the jambs, has rosettes instead of bosses and no central label.In the same unidentified hand as another pair of designs for chimney-pieces (42/6) and also for a memorial tablet (SM 57/88).

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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