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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.
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).
Contents of Designs, finished drawings and record copies for chimneypieces for a house, 1771 (10)
- [14] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1771, as executed in 1990s
- [15] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1771, as executed in 1990s
- [16] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1771, as executed in 1990s
- [17] Design for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, 1771, unexecuted
- [18] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, 1771, unexecuted
- [19] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, 1771, executed
- [20] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1771, unexecuted
- [21] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the small drawing room, 1771, unexecuted
- [22] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1771, executed
- [23] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the back drawing room, c.1770-71, executed status unknown