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The relationship between the Dance wing and Soane's villa is even more comprehensible as a longitudinal section, showing the gradual distribution of floors and space to tie a two-storey building with a raised basement to the two-storey existing structure. Thus the basement is dug below the 'present level of the ground' and the staircase is carefully calculated and positioned.
The overall arrangement is very close to the final design.
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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 Working drawings for Pitzhanger Manor with Dance wing, 14 and 17 January 1801 (2)
- [101] Working drawing for Pitzhanger Manor with Dance wing, 14 January 1801
- [102] Working drawing for Pitzhanger Manor with Dance wing, 17 January 1801