[71] Rough survey drawings

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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 32/2/3

Purpose

[71] Rough survey drawings

Aspect

Plan includes pigeon house and dog kennel, (verso) rough plan of laundry area

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Pidgeon House & arched cellar under, C, D, Wood in (pencil) -----, Arch, Pidge, Poultry, Brewery and verso (pencil) Wash, Laundry, Present Ba-----, / 23 by 15.6, Present Laundry / 48 by 21, Present Washg 23 feet 18.9, Housekeeper 2 Rooms, Land Steward 2 Rooms

Signed and dated

06/11/1817
Stowe Nov^r 6 1817 and (pencil) Stowe / Nov^r6 1817

Medium and dimensions

Pen and some pencil (verso) pencil, on laid paper with 3 fold marks (376 x 490)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837)
John Soane

Verso

see above

Watermark

PHIPPS & SONS 1816

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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