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15 Scudi / 13.50 and 4 Seq / 3 do / 4 do; 5P / 12 do and Augst 1779 Sent to England in Mr Burdon's J.Inagmells, Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, 1997: Roland Burdon, c.1757-1838) / Box / 19 Vol. of Gianelli History of Napl (sic) (Pietro Giannone, Istoria civile del regno di Napoli, 16 volumes, Naples, 1770 and Opere postume di Pietro Giannone, 3 volumes, Naples, 1773. Copies of these octavo volumes are in Soane's library, the Opere postume ... is inscribed 'William Molesworth', a banker met in Italy and mentioned in 'Italian Sketches and Mema', SM volume 164, f.24) / 6 Vol. of Sterns Sermons (Laurence Stern, The Sermons of Mr Yorick, London, 1775-6. Soane's library has the editions of 1765, 1775 and 1776.) Benevento (about 33 miles north-east of Naples) & Ancona (town on the northern Adriatic coast) / London dispensary and some small calculations, and Signr Borganelli a Bastistini (Batistini, Rome) vicino (near) / ai Capucini, (Capuchins) consegnare (consign) dicenovi (nineteen) libre (books)
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Drawing
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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of
Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and
fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing
process).
