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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 Surveys and designs made in November and December 1808 (16-26)
- [16] Survey first floor plan, 21 November 1808 (with iimage)
- [17] Survey first floor plan, 22 November 1808
- [18] Addition to a 40 foot outbuilding etc, 23 November 1808
- [19] Front elevation, 23 November 1808
- [20] Front elevation of 7-bay two-storey building, copy of drawing [20]
- [21] Ground floor plan, 30 November 1808
- [22] Ground floor plan, 30 November 1808
- [23] First floor plan, 30 November 1808
- [24] First floor plan, 30 November 1808
- [25] Plan for offices, 30 November 1808
- [26] Design for fitting out the library, 31 December 1808