[4] Design for ground floor

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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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  - Coombe House, Kingston upon Thames, London: library and other additions for Lord Liverpool, 1812 & later (13)
    - Designs for library

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Reference number

SM volume 65/2

Purpose

[4] Design for ground floor

Aspect

Plan of the New Library / at Coombe House

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 iich to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Earl of Liverpool

Signed and dated

06/03/1809
March 6th : 1809

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes on laid paper (457 x 287)

Hand

James Adams (1785-1850) (pupil May 1806 - June 1809)

Watermark

fleur de lis with baton and 1808 below

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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