[38] Design by Soane for west front and section through library

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Reference number

SM 6/4/11

Purpose

[38] Design by Soane for west front and section through library

Aspect

Elevation and section

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

W R Cartwright Esq^re Aynho

Signed and dated

20/04/1800
April 20 1800

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and brush, pencil on wove paper (567 x 351)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Notes

The elevationl is close to drawing [37] but instead of a pediment there is a parapet with panels over the three centre bays and the four centre pilasters extend into this panel.
The unfinished section at the top of the sheet is more fully worked out in drawing [42].

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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