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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 Folio 68 recto (Ashby 116): Ten imposts and cornices, and a capital
- Drawing 1 (top left): Impost from the ground storey of the Cortile del Belvedere’s lowest terrace
- Drawing 2 (top centre): Impost from the Tegurio in St Peter’s
- Drawing 3 (top right): Cornice seen near the Arch of Titus
- Drawing 4 (second row, left): Cornice from Santa Maria in Domnica (or della Navicella)
- Drawing 5 (second row, centre): Impost or cornice designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
- Drawing 6 (second row right): Cornice once in the Lateran Baptistery
- Drawing 7 (third row right): Top cornice from the Arch of Constantine
- Drawing 8 (bottom left): Unidentified impost or cornice
- Drawing 9 (bottom centre-left): Doric capital designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
- Drawing 10 (bottom centre-right): Impost from the Theatre of Marcellus’s lower storey
- Drawing 11 (bottom right): Cornice from the Septizodium