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1) Elevation of an urn with two twisted handles, a fluted lip, a neck ornamented by acanthus leaves and a central portion ornamented by a mask and swags
2) Elevation of a platter with a central figurative medallion encircled by vines and a border of arabesques
3) Elevation of a jug with a curved handle ornamented by a mask and by foliage at the lip. The central, figurative portion is bordered above by scrolled heart and below by fluting, and the whole is supported by a block pedestal
4) Elevation of a platter with a central rosette encircled by fluting, arabesques and strigils
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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).