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Reference number

SM D3/5/15

Purpose

33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803

Aspect

[21] Plan of principal and back stairs at ground floor level, sections and FS detail of step

Scale

½ in to 1 ft and FS

Inscribed

dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1803

Medium and dimensions

Black, brown and green pen, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (650 x 810)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

Green pen indicates warm-air and smoke ducts, like those shown on [SM D3/5/19] with the stove underneath the first landing, the ducts running as far as the first floor under two flights of stairs. Dance's design for warm-air heating was slightly modified in the next drawing ([SM D3/5/16]) but the full working drawings, if they were made, have not survived.

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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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