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7v (SM volume 80)

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7v (SM volume 80)

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of the house, with waste pipes to / convey the water to drains &c / If the Earl of Bristol approves of the / above Answers to his Wants - it would / be necessary to collect the Materials & / men immediately - / 1 Try two or three Experiments with the Chys / 2 Leave the water 'til a proper person / can be found to manage the pipes / 3 4 5 6 To provide the Reeds, Moss or sand / for all the flooring throughout the house / & 4 or 5 very good workmen - / To order in a quantity of ¾, Whole, / Inch ½, & double deals to carry on the / works with spirit & to keep the 4 or 5 / additional men employ'd as it will be

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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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