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- 18th century
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Middle left: It has been suggested by Peter Walker that this unidentified house is an early design for the west front of Standlynch House (now Trafalgar Park), Wiltshire, a villa designed by John James and built in the 1730s. Links and wings were added to either side in 1760s. The drawing is similar to the central block of the house as built, albeit excluding the segmental pediments to the windors and door on the ground floor, and with the third floor shown as a mansard roof with dormers rather than the brick-built storey surmounted by a hipped roof which is in situ. However, the arrangment to the third floor and hipped roof are thought to have been an afterthought at the end of the original construction in the 1730s and so would not be evident in an early design. 2025
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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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