[154] Site progress drawing

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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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  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
    - Clerk of Works' House, 1807-1833 (26)

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Reference number

SM volume 76/68

Purpose

[154] Site progress drawing

Aspect

View of the Clerk of the Works House, Chelsea Hospital (east and south fronts)

Inscribed

as above and (past curator, pencil) drawing / removed / 11^th Oct 1995

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM volume 76/62, SM volume 76/63 and SM volume 76/60 provide a record of the stage of building construction reached from 5-6 May 1815.

This drawing, evidently made some days after the previous drawings, shows the yellow stock brick addition encasing the whole visible part of the old house, on basement, ground and chamber floors. The upper floor of the old house with its railed roof is the only recognisable feature of the old building left, which was eventually to be altered as well (see SM volume 79/2).

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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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