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[Mount] 25 [x2]
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[Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart
[Verso of mount] Window (224x159mm)
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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).
Contents of Folio 15 recto (Ashby 25): Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican Palace
- Drawing 1 (centre): Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican Palace
- Drawing 2 (top right): Spiral staircase near the Cortile del Belvedere
- Drawing 3 (centre right): Exedra and staircase at the Cortile del Belvedere’s far end
- Drawing 4 (lower right): Nymphaeum from the Cortile del Belvedere’s middle terrace
- Drawing 5 (bottom left): Loggia from the bottom terrace of the Cortile del Belvedere
- Drawing 6 (top left): Arch and flanking piers from the top terrace of the Cortile del Belvedere