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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 83 recto (Ashby 138): Nine capitals
- Drawing 1 (top row, left): Unidentified Corinthian capital
- Drawing 2 (top row, centre): Corinthian-type capital with sea monsters seen possibly at Tivoli
- Drawing 3 (top row, right): Composite capital similar to those on the Arch of Titus
- Drawing 4 (second row, left): Unidentified Corinthian-type capital
- Drawing 5 (second row, centre): Unidentified capital with winged horses
- Drawing 6 (third row, left): Unidentified fantastical capital with sea serpents
- Drawing 7 (third row, centre): Corinthian-type capital possibly from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli
- Drawing 8 (third row, right): Ionic capital once in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
- Drawing 9 (bottom row, right): Ionic capital once in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
- Drawing 10 (bottom row, left): Unidentified Corinthian-type capital with winged animals