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Below- Plan of the basement storey of a seventeen-bay building, with the central and terminating bays canted. Within the building there is a central passageway which links to rooms in the south of the building, and vaulted rooms to the north. To the west of the passage there is a staircase set within a vaulted space, with a room beyond. To the north east of the passage there is a further staircase set within a canted bay, and a room with canted bay windows to the east
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- 1763-78
date range: 1763-78. See scheme notes.
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Hand
Office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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.
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).