Design in a rustic Italianate style

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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 42/114: John Soane (1753-1837): ? Game larder

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Reference number

SM volume 42/114

Purpose

Design in a rustic Italianate style

Aspect

Plan and elevation. The plan is a shallow cruciform with a segmentally bowed entrance answered by a similarly bowed window. Corner piers support an upper storey 12 feet 3 inches square internally, no stair is indicated. The elevation shows a round-arched entrance and three circular openings above a string course, a segmental arched doorway fronted by a verandah on the middle storey, and an upper storey with louvred openings and thatched roof

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

12 feet 3 [inches] and (feint pencil) calculations

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, raw umber and sepia washes, shaded on laid paper (304 x 196)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche with GR below

Notes

The purpose of the building is not clear but the lack of a stair and the louvred upper storey suggest a game larder (Stephen Astley, 8.10.07) rather than, say, a dairy (no room for a boiler) or a pigeon house (too chilly) or a prospect tower (no staircase). The design is pleasing and was no doubt intended to be an adornment to the view from the house.

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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