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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 42/133: John Soane (1753-1837): Tyringham House, Buckinghamshire for William Mackworth Praed MP, c.1794

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Reference number

SM volume 42/133

Purpose

Sketch revised design

Aspect

Plan and front elevation

See Tyringham House, drawing 85, for full catalogue of SM volume 42/133

Scale

bar scale (pricked for transfer) of 1/13 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

rooms labelled Green H[ouse], Draw^g[room], Eat [in]^g [room], Bill[iard]^dRoom and (?) Airey

Signed and dated

datable to c.1794

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil on laid paper with three fold marks (220 x 339)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche and 1794 below

Notes

In 1792, Soane surveyed the existing Elizabethan manor house at Tyringham and made designs for alterations. But in June 1793, the decision was made to build a new house and 'fair' drawings were with the client by the end of the year. The house was occupied in 1797and the stables completed in 1800 after demolition of the old house.
In the rough drawing catalogued above, the plan is quite close to the executed one and includes, for example, the idea of a 'tribune'. The elevation has the essentials of, for example, the bowed, porticoed entrance and the segmental bow on the garden side. It is interesting to see Soane getting close to his final overall design. For drawings for Tyringham see (this) volume 42/45, 42/147, 42/164, and SM 3/5/1-46 and Concise Catalogue for further drawings

Literature

N.Pevsner & E.Williamson, Buckinghamshire, 1994, pp. 703-6; D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.169-74; G. Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, pp.106-110; M.Richardson and M.Stevens, John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, pp.128-39

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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