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Reference number

SM volume 41/55 recto

Purpose

[1] Record copy of design and of design as executed

Aspect

Plan of the Obelisk and elevations of obelisk and of column (designs SM volume 41/55 recto and SM volume 41/56 recto)

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

James Evelyn Esq

Medium and dimensions

Pen with raw umber and sepia washes on laid paper (244 x 364)

Hand

John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-1790)

Watermark

T French

Literature

M. Hudson, 'Soane's gratitude in stone', Country Life, 31 August 1978, pp. 592-3; P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 70,71, p.45

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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