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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 42/13: Gillows: Library writing table for Sir James Ibbetson Bart., Denton Park, W.R.Yorkshire

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Reference number

SM volume 42/13

Purpose

Design

Aspect

Perspectival elevation of a library table or pedestal desk, the apron with a bell-flower (or husk) festoon and with alternative details for the pedestal fronts: oval in mitred corner background, and panel with fluted or reeded surround

Inscribed

N^o1, 2.10, 6 f^t6 and 3 f^t

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil, shaded on laid paper (139 x 206)

Hand

Gillows

Watermark

(part) GR over bell

Notes

In this unfinished drawing there are feint pencil and pen indications on the apron of four drawers and presumably the pedestals would have had cupboards. The length and width are the same as for the previous design for a desk (42/12) and since the medium and hand are the same, it seems safe to assume that they are from the same source, that is, Gillows.

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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