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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 94 recto (Ashby 156): Six ornamental bands and the carriage of a chariot
- Drawing 1 (top row, left): Decorative band with a mask and urns
- Drawing 2 (top row, right): Decorative frieze with foliate ornament perhaps from the Temple of Venus Genetrix
- Drawing 3 (second row, left): Decorative band with palmettes
- Drawing 4 (second row, right): Decorative foliate band with a palmette
- Drawing 5 (third row, left): Frieze with palmettes from the Forum of Trajan
- Drawing 6 (upper half, bottom right): Decorative band with an acanthus sprig and a palmette
- Drawing 7 (forth row): Carriage of an ancient chariot sculpted in marble