[108-110] Record drawings of a plan and two perspectives (3)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: official (mostly domeless) designs, July 1794 - February 1795 (134)

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Reference number

SM (108) volume 62/32 (109) volume 62/34 (110) volume 62/12

Purpose

[108-110] Record drawings of a plan and two perspectives (3)

Aspect

108 Copy of (Domed design series) drawing 4 catalogued as: final plan re-used (or made) as a lecture drawing 109 Copy of a missing perspective (Domed design series) 110 Copy after a perspective given to the Royal Academy

Scale

(108) bar scale of 1/24 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(108) (pencil, added later) Plan of a Design for a New House of Lords 1794 (109) (pencil, added later) View of a Design for a New House of Lords

Medium and dimensions

(108) Pen, sepia and light blue washes on thin laid paper (250 x 403), p. 32 of volume 62 (109) pen and sepia washes on thin laid paper (272 x 430), p. 34 of volume 62 (110) pen on thin laid paper (249 x 401), p. 12 of volume 62

Hand

(108-110) Henry Provis (1760-1830, clerk July 1791-February 1802)

Watermark

(108-110) Allee 1799, post horn within crowned cartouche and below, GR

Notes

Volume 62 is, with many other similar volumes, a collection of copies, mostly to a reduced scale, of executed or unexecuted design or working drawings drawn directly or mounted into an album. This was a useful exercise for Soane's office pupils and also provided Soane with a discreet way of showing possible clients examples of his work. In fact, the drawings from volume 62 - drawings 108-123 have been attributed to Henry Provis who worked in the Soane office from July 1791 to February 1802 and is listed as a 'clerk' in the office records.

For information on drawing 108 see Domed designs, drawing 4. The original of drawing 109 for a flank elevation with a Corinthian portico on a semicrcular plan has not been found. Plans that show this four-column portico are Domed designs 3 and 4. The original of drawing 110 has not been found in Soane's own collection. It seems to be an outline version to a reduced scale and without staffage of a drawing given as a Diploma Work by Soane to the Royal Academy and accepted on 20 March 1802 (R.A. 03/5556). The Soane Museum's version is drawn with trompe-l'oeil effect paper with curled edges, encased within an outline plan of the new House of Lords.

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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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