[5] Working drawing - plan of library and lobby close to [3] and [4]

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

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B30

Purpose

[5] Working drawing - plan of library and lobby close to [3] and [4]

Aspect

The Plan / Gothic Library &c Stowe

Scale

to a scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquiss of Buckingham, The Plan, AB, CD, EF, GH, LM, equal (six times), labelled Lobby, Balluster, enclosure, to finish 3:6, Bookcase (6 Times), Door (twice), Splay (twice), The Backs of the Bookcases are / to be of Inch deal bead & flush / framing prepared in the Country / Note the Bookcases will / be made in Town / the Finishing of the Window / side of the Room to be prepared / in Town // the Moldings / in the Lobby will be executed in / Composition or artificial Stone // JJJ equal spacing // (feint pencil) 12 feet / [illegible] door of 2.6, Section of the Ceiling from e to f and pencil calculations

Signed and dated

ND
00/4/1805
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields April 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes on thin laid paper (685 x 545)

Hand

Soane office

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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