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Several of the ceiling designs are known to have been executed. These included the ceilings for the ground floor ante room, the dining room and the first, second and third drawing rooms. King notes that the ceiling for the first drawing room was modified on execution, and records the presence of a ‘pleasant’ hall ceiling, which was possibly another Adam design. King highlights evidence for additional plasterwork interiors which were possibly part of the Adam scheme, including ornamental wall panels for the dining room and staircase. The dining room panels compare to the office’s contemporary designs produced for Wormleybury.
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).