[163] Drawing of the exterior by JM Gandy

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Bentley Priory, Harrow, London: (executed) two additions, outbuildings and an entrance hall addition for John James Hamilton, later 9th Earl, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1788-1799, 1805 (178)
    - Drawings of the exterior by JM Gandy, August and September 1798 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 59/90

Purpose

[163] Drawing of the exterior by JM Gandy

Aspect

Perspective from north-west; (verso) rough plan of the dairy at Bentley Priory

Inscribed

(Bailey) The Marquiss of Abercorn, Entrance to Bentley Priory 1798

Signed and dated

August 1798 - September 1798
(Bailey) 1798
Datable to August/September 1798 in accord with the other drawings in this group

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and coloured washes including sepia, burnt umber, olive green and Payne's grey within single-ruled and wash border on laid paper (425 x 258)

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843), draughtsman

Watermark

fleur-de-lis over cartouche with GR below

Level

Drawing

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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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