[235] Design for alterations to the lawn front, August 1810

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London: (executed) a house for John Soane and six unexecuted schemes for a villa at Acton, 1800-1832 (285)
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Reference number

SM volume 60/69

Purpose

[235] Design for alterations to the lawn front, August 1810

Aspect

Sketch of a Design for the alteration of the Lawn Front

Signed and dated

August 1810
Ealing, ab[ou]^t 1810

Medium and dimensions

Pen, olive green, terre verte, Naples yellow, cerulean blue, ochre, Payne's grey and sepia washes, watercolour technique within a six-ruled grey and black border, on wove paper (257 x 340)

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman

Watermark

presently stuck down and not visible

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001

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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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