Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [22] Working drawing (office copy?) for mouldings of the porch columns at Anniston House as executed, 1786
  • image SM 78/6/7 verso
Drawing. SM 78/6/7 verso. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

SM 78/6/7 verso

Purpose

[22] Working drawing (office copy?) for mouldings of the porch columns at Anniston House as executed, 1786

Aspect

Details of mouldings for the capital and base of a Doric column

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cap at large to Columns / to begin to diminish at a 3d of hight / Base at large to Columns

Signed and dated

  • 1786
    Datable to early summer 1786 based on the date of the recto sheet and other drawings for the porch details.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on wove paper (509x642)

Hand

Playfair, James (1755--1794) - Art collections

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.


Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).