[8] Record drawing, 1791

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  - Cambridge: (unexecuted) University picture gallery, museum and lecture rooms for Senate House, 1791, and design for railings, 1792 (24)

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Reference number

SM volume 66/17

Purpose

[8] Record drawing, 1791

Aspect

Plan and internal elevation/section of museum lit by three oval lanterns

Scale

to an unstated scale

Inscribed

(feint pencil) University of Cambridge, Section of Museum 1791

Signed and dated

1791
1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red, yellow and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (492 x 701) with one fold mark

Hand

Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1788-1794)

Watermark

Edmeades & Pine 1791 and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR and 1791 below

Notes

This drawing shows the same design as SM 71/3/13 though to a reduced scale and without the embellishments of museum specimens on the shelves.

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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