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Reference number

SM volume 42/22

Purpose

Copy of a design

Aspect

Ground floor plan of a square, almost entirely symmetrical building approached at each end through a six-columned portico approached by a wide stair. Each entrance gives on to a pair of wide staircases and there is a square, colonnaded courtyard. Four large compartments of the same size are ranged along each side, each lit by a single window and between each room is a narrow room also lit by a window

Scale

bar scale of tois

Inscribed

as above

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on thin laid paper (324 x 199)

Hand

unidentified French architect

Watermark

Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval frame

Notes

For the section see 42/23

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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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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