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Top centre – Elevation of a single-storey, five-bay building, with the central three bays forming a bow and set behind a rustic colonnade. Beyond this there is a central entrance flanked by three-quarter-height, latticed windows. The bow front is flanked by single bays containing half-height, latticed windows
Bottom centre- Plan of a five-by-three-bay, H-shaped building, with the central three bays set behind a colonnaded screen and flanked by projecting bays. Within there is a central, rectangular room with a fireplace. This links to additional rooms, including bedrooms, and there are projecting entrances on the left and right hand sides of the building
Bottom- Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay building, with a hipped roof. There is a central window set within a reliving arch and a Doric portico with a broken pediment. The portico is flanked by windows
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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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