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Reference number

SM D3/7/14

Purpose

Design for an unidentified country house for Sir Thomas Baring, after 1810

Aspect

[1] Section

Scale

1/8 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Sir Thomas Baring Bart / Devonshire Place and floor-to-ceiling dimensions, 16..0, 11..0 and 9..0

Signed and dated

  • c.1810

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (530 x 650)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The drawing has fold marks that suggest it was carried in the pocket.

The design is for a three-storey building with a stair top-lit by a rectangular lantern, a lofty, 12-sided hall with gallery lit by a vaulted dome (17 feet high) with large semicircular-headed windows, a secondary stair, and an entrance hall on axis; the section is 119 feet long. No location is given for the house, which is based on the Coleorton theme.

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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