Notes
(pen, in another hand) Signore Filippo Coppolo / alla Citta di Caprea / (pen, Soane) July 3d 1779 / Sr Willm Hamilton's book (Soane's library has copies of the book of William Hamilton's vases: Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble Wm Hamilton by P.F. Hugues called Baron D'Hancarville, published in Florence, 4 volumes, 1767-1776. An incomplete set (I-II) was bought by Soane in 1803 for 10 guineas and a complete set (I-IV) in 1830 for £18.) / cost 20 Ounces (perhaps refers to the English translation of 'onza', a Sicilian coin worth about ten shillings) / Mr Patteson (J.Inagmells, Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, 1997: John Patteson, textile merchant and brewer of Norwich, 1755-1833) / Piranesi's Pantheon / Coliseum / Vesta at Tivoli / Cecilia Mettelle / School of Athens & / Campania (These prints were probably for Patteson. Soane had met G.B. Piranesi before his death on 9 November 1778 and had been given four prints: Pantheon, Monument of Cecilia Metella, Arch of Constantine and Arch of Septimus Severus (hung in Picture Room). There are also five framed and three unframed prints by Piranesi, none of which include the Coliseum, School of Athens or Campania as well as some bound volumes.)
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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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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