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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.
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).
Contents of Designs made in October and November 1807 (1-15)
- [1] Ground floor plan, 10 October 1807
- [2] Ground floor plan, 12 October 1807
- [3] Incomplete ground floor plan with Soane's revisions, 14 October 1807 and 16 November 1807
- [4] Ground floor plan, 14 October 1807
- [5] Ground floor plan titled 'Design No 1', 1 November, 1807
- [6] Close copy of drawing [5], 1 November 1807
- [7] First floor plan, 3 November 1807
- [8] Eating room, November 1807
- [9] Entrance hall, 3 November 1807
- [10] Alternative design for entrance hall, 6 November 1807
- [11] Further design for entrance hall, 6 November 1807
- [12] Ground floor plan, 'Design No 2', 6 November 1807
- [13] First floor plan, 'Design No 3', 6 November 1807
- [14] Ground floor plan, 'Design No 3', 6 November 1807
- [15] Ground floor plan, 'Design No 3', 6 November 1807