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  - London: Cedar Court, Roehampton: alterations and additions for John Thomson, 1804-1807 (49)
    - Sketch designs and unexecuted design for a new villa by Soane, May 1804 (7)

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Reference number

SM 35/3/8

Purpose

[4] Sketch design

Aspect

Plan and elevation

Scale

bar scale of 1/16 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

John Thomson Esq^re / Sketch of a Design for a Villa, labelled Portico, Drawing Room, Billiard / Room, Eating Room, (?) -- ----- over these / 2 Rooms, M^r Thomson / Room, (?) Conservatory, Hall, lower court, M^rs Thomson, Children, Court, Arcade, HKeeper, Kitchen, Offices, Ser[van]ts / Hall

Signed and dated

13/05/1804
May 13: 1804

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, some pencil, shaded, hatching on laid paper (558 x 345)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Notes

The massing has changed (from drawings [1-3]) and the front is now eleven bays wide with a six column portico that is single storey and not double as with previous designs. The bow on the lefthand side remains constant except for drawing [6].

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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