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- 1813-14
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Unfinished plan of dining room with outline plan to stair above and of vaulted passage, and unfinished longitudinal section of staircase, dining room and floors above showing lantern over principal stair and a smaller one over the stair to attics
Scale: ¼ in to 1 ft
Inscribed: dimensions given including 46..9 Ground Floor and 47..2 one pair referring to the overall length of the dining room and the matching space above, and 17Ft.4½in referring to the width of the attic stair compartment, and calculations
Black and red pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil
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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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