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- datable to early 1811
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In Bourgeois's will he requested the refurbishment of the existing Gallery on the first floor of the west wing of the College, as shown on SM 65/4/4. However the wing was in such a decrepit state that the building of an entirely new wing for the Gallery and the demolition of the west wing was proposed.
The seventeenth-century character of the original College building is particularly evident here and in SM 65/4/1. The college is a symmetrical building with gables and transomed and mullioned windows, with the panes arranged diagonally in SM 65/4/1.
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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).