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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane's architectural education including theoretical designs made for the Royal Academy Schools and for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1770-80, and in Italy, 1778-80
    - Design for an 'Academy of Arts' exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1776, and copies 1795-1796 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 66/31

Purpose

[2] Record drawing

Aspect

Elevation with (Soane, pencil) sketch detail of a bay with a niche replacing a roundel

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

(feint pencil) D. Laing Dec^r 17 [cut, 1795]

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, sepia, green and yellow washes, shaded on laid paper

Hand

David Laing (pupil, 1790-6) / Soane

Watermark

Edmeades & Pine 1794

Notes

This record drawing of the lost original elevation was made by David Laing (1774-1856), a pupil in Soane's office (articled 8 January 1790). (On Laing see H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, 3rd ed. 1995).

The sculptural programme of the elevation amply demonstrates the building's function.

Jill Lever, September 2005

Literature

P. du Prey, John Soane’s architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.75-6
P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.57-9
P. du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 7-8 (further copies)

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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