[36] Design by Soane for west front to library

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [36] Design by Soane for west front to library

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire: designs for alterations and additions for W.R.Cartwright, 1799-1802 ( 60)
    - Designs and working drawings made 1800 (24)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 6/4/10

Purpose

[36] Design by Soane for west front to library

Aspect

Elevation

Inscribed

W R Cartwright Esq^re / Aynho

Signed and dated

20/04/1800

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil, hatching on wove paper (331 x 565)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Notes

A two storey elevation with pediment. Six pilasters divide the front vertically into five un-equal bays. In the centre, an added (pencil) niche between two narrowly spaced pilasters, either side are round headed doors and at each end a square-headed niche. The three centre bays of the upper storey are crowned by a pediment. The upper storey has two window and two, square and sunk tablets.
Ptolemy Dean writes of this elevation: 'Ingeniously, in Soane's rebuilding [of Thomas Archer's elevation] the central band of masonry was split into two, creating a central recess in effect a third bay. The handling of line and plane in the ashlar stonework is especially sympathetic towards the effects of light and shade and are, in their way, amongst Soane's finest elevations anywhere.' P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.84.

Soane worked on the drawings [36] to [38] on a Sunday.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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).