Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Volume, entitled on front cover, Sketches and Drawings/of the/House and Museum of J. Soane Esq RA, containing 125 numbered plans, elevations, sections and watercolour views of Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, and drawings of objects in the Museum, 1825-1836. Bound in leather, tooled, with spine insc: House &/Museum of J. Soane Esq (475 x 310)
  • image Image 1 for Vol 82/49
  • image Image 2 for Vol 82/49
  • image Image 1 for Vol 82/49
  • image Image 2 for Vol 82/49

Reference number

Vol 82/49

Purpose

Volume, entitled on front cover, Sketches and Drawings/of the/House and Museum of J. Soane Esq RA, containing 125 numbered plans, elevations, sections and watercolour views of Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, and drawings of objects in the Museum, 1825-1836. Bound in leather, tooled, with spine insc: House &/Museum of J. Soane Esq (475 x 310)

Notes

The majority are by J. M. Gandy & C. J. Richardson; one by Edward Davies (17) and another by Stephen Burchell (77). Filed within the volume are four pencil drawings of the House, Museum and objects, two s and d: H. Ansted Nov 1825

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).