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A note by Soane on drawing 89 reprimands his pupil for failing to correctly copy a drawing. The pupil has included doors in his drawing where there should be windows and Soane is apparently incensed by the pupil's 'stupidity & shameful inattention'.
Soane sent five working drawings to 'Mr Holland' on 22 October 1790, including details of mouldings for the drawing room and a section of finishings for the drawing room. R. Holland was the carpenter/joiner at Bentley Priory. He also worked for Soane at Wimpole Hall from 1791 to 95.
The ground floor plan on the verso of drawing 85 is a design for a villa as published in Soane's 'Sketches in Architecture' (1793) as plate XIV and entitled 'House for an Artist'. The ground floor plan is the same as that design published but the 'office' in drawing 85 is shown as a library in the publication, and the dimensions of the rooms vary slightly.
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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 finishings to the drawing room, 16-21 October 1790 (3)
- [88] Design for finishings to the drawing room, 16 October 1790
- [89] Design for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790
- [90] Design for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790