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Centre – Elevation of a rectangular ornamental panel containing a tripod flanked by arabesques and tubular flowers supporting anthemia. The tripod bears female figures supporting a platform surmounted by a tubular flower. Above, a central rosette is set within a calyx wreath and flanked by festoons
Below- Elevation of an ornamental rectangular panel containing pegasi, with arabesques supporting an urn and anthemia above. The urn is ornamented with gadrooning and a central winged sphinx, and supports an anthemion set within a wreath, with a tubular flower bearing a further anthemion above
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- February 1775
22d Febry 1775
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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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