Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [5] Finished drawing for a church showing a ground plan, c1772-81, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 45/48
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/48

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a church showing a ground plan, c1772-81, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a church, with an octagonal nave containing pews facing the octagonal pulpit on the north side, and with a screened apse to east and west, behind each of which is a lobby with two apses and a staircase to the gallery above, and with external stairs to east and west

Scale

bar scale of 2 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of a Parish Church for George Ross Esqr. Near Cromarty shewing the disposition of the / Pews & place of the Pulpit &c also of the Porches & stairs up to the Niches above (verso) 5

Signed and dated

  • 1772-81
    date range: 1772-1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (354 x 534)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

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).