[58] Design No 1 for shield (and library doors)

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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
      - Shields, library doors

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B4

Purpose

[58] Design No 1 for shield (and library doors)

Aspect

Elevation of door with shield

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

The Marquis of Buckingham / Details for Gothic Library at Stowe, Molding, Note / If the shields are not used / in the cieling They may be / introduced in the doors as shewn / at B which will require / No 28 of them // The shields being small / would suit the doors / much more than / the Cieling: & the roses / being introduced to / terminate the points / of the Curves EE / would give variety / & is likewise agreeable / to the Chapel of Henry VII, B, 2 --, N^o1

Signed and dated

1805
1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, red, yellow and blue washes on laid paper with several fold marks (433 x 303)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837)
The drawing is not by Soane but the added note is in his hand.

Notes

Apparently the shields could have been used for the ceiling or for the doors.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Giving Our Past a Future: The Work of the World Monuments Fund Britain, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 26 October 2012 - 26 January 2013

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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