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Centre- Elevation of a three-storey, five-bay building, with a hipped roof. The central three bays are surmounted by a broken pediment. There is a central relieving arch containing an entrance at the ground-storey level, an Ionic balustraded screen at the first-storey level, and this is flanked by windows surmounted by roundels. There are half-height windows at the ground-storey level, full-height windows at the first-storey level, and half-height windows in the upper register
Below- Elevation of a two-storey, seven-bay house with a hipped roof. The central three bays are pedimented, and there is a central doorway, surmounted by a fan light
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Signed and dated
- c1784
c1784
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Hand
Robert Adam
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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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