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Top left: rough elevation of a sarcophagus with an inscription panel, supported by sphinxes, and set against a pyramid in relief ornamented with an enclosed rosette and surmounted by an urn
Top right: rough elevation of a monument with a deep stylobate, a square inscription panel flanked by Doric columns, supporting an attic with a central rosette and swags, and surmounted by a sphinx
Bottom left: rough elevation of a monument, with a deep stylobate, a rectangular inscription panel glanced by terms, and surmounted by a pediment, acroteria and a small drum(?)
Bottom right: rough elevation of a monument, with a rectangular inscription panel set against a rusticated base, surmounted by acroteria and a coned drum(?)
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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.
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).