Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [9] Design for elevation in a Classical style, 'C'

Browse

  • image SM volume 59/19

Reference number

SM volume 59/19

Purpose

[9] Design for elevation in a Classical style, 'C'

Aspect

Front elevation in a setting

Scale

bar scale of 1/17 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

David Scott Esqr and C

Signed and dated

  • 6/1795
    John Soane Archt Lincolns Inn Fields June 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, sepia, raw Sienna, green and blue washes, shaded with triple-ruled and black wash border on laid paper (282 x 465) tipped into volume 59, page 19

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The main elevation is of seven bays composed of two storeys with a basement and with a flat-topped attic with a single window. The offices to each side are of one storey with basement. The front has a portico with four Ionic columns above which are (first floor) four ribbed pilasters fronted by four standing figures.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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).