Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [15] Variant design for the elevation of a castle-style gated entrance to the stables and offices, 1795, as executed

Browse

  • Image Not Yet Available
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/15

Purpose

[15] Variant design for the elevation of a castle-style gated entrance to the stables and offices, 1795, as executed

Aspect

Variant of SM Adam volume 10/58 with the addition of flanking wings with similar decoration

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Offices for Mauldsley Castle one of the seats of the Earl of Hyndford / (and in another hand in pencil) This spire does not seem / to be the right proportions / I can find no scale, always post a scale to / your Drawings as I won’t know anything / so provoking as to be in want of one / (verso) Kitchen / Stable Offices for Mauldslie Castle

Signed and dated

  • 1795
    datable to 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (604x513)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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).