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Centre- Plan of a five-by-one-bay building, with a central, projecting rotunda in the principal front. Beyond the rotunda there is a curved staircase. This is flanked by one-bay wings, with pitched roofs
Below- Plan of a five-by-one-bay building, with a central rotunda in the principal façade, forming a three-bay bow. The rotunda is flanked by one-bay rooms and to the rear of the rotunda there is an additional space with a central stairwell(?)
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- August 1790
Edin.r Aug.t 1790.
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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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