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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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Contents of Designs for alterations and additions, 1798-1801 (18)
- [6] Rough ground floor plan by Soane
- [7] Ground floor plan including layout and details of drains
- [8] Design for alterations to drawing room
- [9] Working drawing of chimney piece for drawing room
- [10] Working drawing for chimney piece (as [9])
- [11] Full size working drawing for chimney piece
- [12] Design No. 1 for addition of porch and breakfast room
- [13] Design No. 2 for addition of porch and breakfast room
- [14] Working drawing for addition of breakfast room
- [15] Design for for alterations to the facade, 1801
- [16] Design for sash window
- [17] Revised design for addition of porch and breakfast room
- [18] Revised design for additions to the west front
- [19] Working drawing for breakfast room
- [20] Working drawing for the roof to breakfast room and porch
- [21] Revised working drawing for the timbers of the breakfast room
- [22] Working drawing for window shutters
- [23] Preliminary survey of Mrs Peters' room