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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.
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).
Contents of Designs for buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn
- Design for a Gothic temple, c1758, executed (1)
- Preliminary design and finished drawing for stables, 1759, unexecuted (2)
- Finished drawings for a greenhouse, 1759, unexecuted (4)
- Preliminary designs and finished designs for north lodge, 1759, executed (4)
- Variant preliminary designs for an ironwork gate, 1759, executed with alterations (2)
- Variant designs for a bridge, 1759-61, unexecuted (3)
- Preliminary design and finished drawings for a viewing tower, 1759-60, unexecuted (6)
- Preliminary design and finished drawings for an inn, 1759-61 (2)
- Finished drawings for a farm house, 1759-61, unexecuted (1)
- Preliminary design, design and finished drawing for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted (3)
- Two alternative preliminary designs for a garden hut for the Hon. Miss Curzon, 1760-70, unexecuted (2)
- Preliminary designs and finished drawings for the pheasant house, c1760, unexecuted (4)
- Preliminary design for the garden façade of the Parsonage House (now the old rectory), c1761, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Preliminary design for a garden seat, c1760-70, unexecuted (1)
- Finished drawings for farm offices containing stables, c1763, unexecuted (4)
- Finished drawing for an alternative coach house and stables, 1763, unexecuted (1)
- Design of a Bridge, 1764, executed (1)
- Preliminary designs and designs for the fishing room and boat house, 1769-70, executed (8)
- Record drawing of a ceiling, and design for the walls for the fishing room, 1770, executed (2)
- Record drawings for a pavilion, 1770, unexecuted (2)
- Record drawing for a ceiling for a garden building, March 1770, unexecuted (1)