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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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Contents of Designs and record drawings for chimneypieces in the principal rooms, 1778, as executed (16)
- [3] Record drawings for a chimney piece for the hall, 1778, as executed
- [4] Record copy for a chimney piece for the buffet room, 1778, as executed
- [5] Design for a chimney piece for the eating room, 1778, as executed
- [6] Record copy for a chimney piece for the library, 1778, as executed
- [7] Record copy for a chimney piece for the first-floor anteroom, 1778, as executed
- [8] Design for a chimney piece for the first drawing room, 1778, as executed
- [9] Design for a chimney piece for the second drawing room, 1778, as executed
- [10] Design for a chimney piece for the first-floor bed chamber, 1778, as executed
- [11] Record copy for a chimney piece for the first-floor dressing room, 1778, as executed
- [12] Record copy for a chimney piece for the second-floor northeast dressing room, 1778, possibly executed
- [13] Record copy for the second-floor east bed chamber, 1778, possibly executed
- [14] Record copy for a chimney piece for the second-floor southeast dressing room, 1778, possibly executed
- [15] Record copy for a chimney piece for the second-floor large south bed chamber, 1778, executed
- [16] Record copy for a chimney piece for the second-floor small south bed chamber, 1778, possibly executed
- [17] Record copy of a chimney piece for the second-floor south west bed chamber, 1778, possibly executed
- [18] Record copy of a chimney piece for the second-floor northwest bed chamber, 1778, possibly executed