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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 Working, and record drawings (for 'old building') made in 1809 (27-38)
- [27] Working drawing for Lady Hood's apartment, 7 March 1809
- [28] Working drawing for garden stores, 7 March 1809
- [29] Working drawing for a cupboard, 23 March 1809
- [30] Record section of 'old building', 8 April 1809
- [31] Record drawing, north front, 1809
- [32] Record drawing, south front, 1809
- [33] Record drawing, east front, 1809
- [34] Ground floor plan, copy after drawing [4], 13 March 1809
- [35] First floor plan, after drawings [16], [17], 14 March 1809
- [36] First floor plan, copy of drawing [13], 13 April 1809
- [37] Plan by Soane for offices, 16 April 1809
- [38] Ground floor plan, 'Design No 2', copy of [12], 28 April 1809