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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Down Ampney House, Gloucestershire: alterations for Hon. John Eliot, 1799 (8)

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Reference number

SM 89/6/5

Purpose

[5] Specification

Aspect

Description of Sundry works to be done / in finishing a House at Down Ampney / Gloucestershire (10 pages)

Inscribed

as above, The Right Hon^ble Lord Eliot with headings: Mason (pp.1-3) Carpenter, Joiner, Ironmonger (pp.3-6) Plasterer(pp.6-7) Plumber (p.7), Glazier (pp.7,11), Painter (pp.8,11), Smith (p.12)

Signed and dated

18/06/1799
1799 / June 18th

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on five sheets of laid and wove paper with one fold mark (average size 250 x 200) attached with sealing wax

Hand

A neat clerical hand except for p.11/12 some of whch was written by Soane

Notes

Pages 1-8 make up the specification, pages 9-10 are missing, pages 11-12 take the form of notes by Soane, and includes additional work for the glazier and painter as well as a tally of costs that adds up to £1252:6.
Most of Soane's specifications are filed in the Soane office archive which awaits cataloguing. Some (but not many) specifications have been filed and catalogued with the related drawings see, for example under Tendring Hall, Suffolk, 1784.

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Drawing

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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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