[4] Plan of library and lobby as [3]

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
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Reference number

SM 33/3/B44

Purpose

[4] Plan of library and lobby as [3]

Aspect

The Plan with the proposed Alterations N^o1

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham / Gothic Library (Stowe), Lobby, AB, CD, EF, GH, MN, OP, RS, equal (twice)

Signed and dated

15/03/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields March 15^th 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes, with triple ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper, pricked for transfer (705 x 495)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808) and Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809).

The entry in the Soane office Day Book for 15 March 1805 has ' About drawings of / Saxon Room at Stowe'. Nowadays Saxon or Anglo-Saxon is generally thought of as the period from AD 410 (the retreat of the Romans) and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Gothic succeeded Norman architecture.

Notes

A neatly drawn copy of drawing [3].

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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