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The addition of this screen was presumably intended to provide privacy to the houses within the scheme, although it was not executed in the end. The intended location of the screen is not known. King has suggested that the screen would have fitted into the Adelphi better on the north side of John Street – bridging the gap left to provide the Coutts brothers’ house with a light – rather than on the Royal Terrace, but there is no clear evidence and this is not known.
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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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Contents of Finished drawings showing a screen at the west end of the Royal Terrace, c1768-69, unexecuted (2)
- [2] Finished drawing for a screen at the west end of the Royal Terrace, c1768-69, unexecuted
- [3] Finished drawings showing a screen at the west end of the Royal Terrace, c1768-69, unexecuted