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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
      - Columns

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B25

Purpose

[55] Full size details of capital

Aspect

Plan at the Top of Capital of Columns / in Library

Scale

(full size)

Inscribed

as above, Angle, Rib Arch, Projection of Capital, Projection of Impost, Groove, Profile of Impost, Wood, Plaster Impost, Ground, Plaster, Cap

Signed and dated

30/07/1805
Copy / L I F / July 30: 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow, sepia and light red washes, pricked for transfer, on laid paper (432 x 644)

Hand

The office Day Book entry for 30 June 1805 has no mention of Stowe.

Notes

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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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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