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Bottom left- Plan of the basement storey of a five-bay building, with a passage on the left-hand side which links to domestic offices and leads to a staircase and a central passage. The central passage links to a cellar, housekeeper’s room and kitchen
Centre left- Plan of the ground storey of a five-bay building with an entrance in the second bay. The entrance leads to a dog-legged staircase, with an additional staircase beyond. To the right of the entrance there is a rectangular, three-bay parlour. To the rear of the building there is a study, and a library with an apsidal end set behind a columnar screen
Bottom right- Plan of the first storey of a five-bay house, with a dog-legged staircase and a three-bay dining room at the front of the building. To the rear of the building there is a further staircase and lobby, a bedchamber with a columnar screen, and a dressing room
Centre right- Plan of the second storey level of a five-bay building, with a small central passageway linking to a staircase. The passageway links to four bedchambers each within internal closets
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Hand
Office hand
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 129
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.
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