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- 22 August 1801
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields Augt 22nd 1801, (in Soane's hand) L.I.F. / Aug 18 1801 and Aug 28 1801
Pupil January 1799 - 1804.
Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)
The chamber floor has two or three bed rooms. An unusual feature is the 'Court' at the centre of the floor, which is also shown in a rough section. Soane's notes relate to plumbing and drainage issues. The yellow wash indicates wooden-framed partitions (see drawings [34]-[35]).
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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