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Reference number

SM 64/1/3

Purpose

[31] Design by Soane for an organ case

Aspect

Plan and elevation

Inscribed

Bookcase (twice), top of Marble and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 19/11/1799
    Novr 19:1799

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen , hatching, on laid paper (311 x 284)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Watermark

fleur de lis above cartouche with bar and below GR

Notes

The mention of 'bookcase' suggests that the organ was intended for the library. In size it is 10:1½ high and 6:10 wide.

Level

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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