[3] Site survey

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  - London: Fountain Court, Aldermanbury: surveys and designs for a new counting house for William Adair Jackson Esq. and Messrs Peters & Co, 1798-1805 (25)

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Reference number

SM 40/4/13

Purpose

[3] Site survey

Aspect

Plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Adair Jackson Esq^r, Lincoln's Inn Fields, (pencil) Warehouses & Counting Houses / on the Ground Floor and other, illegible, pencil inscriptions

Signed and dated

18 March 1802
March 18^th 1802

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (550 x 671)

Hand

Charles Malton (1788)
Pupil February 1802 - December 1809.

Notes

This drawing gives the first hint of Soane's initial design for the façade of the new building. A pencil line curving from the bottom centre to the middle right of the plan has been drawn over the survey, representing Soane's idea of introducing a single curved elevation to Fountain Court.

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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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