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Purpose
Aspect
(verso) Ground floor plan and front elevation (revised copy of drawing 4)
Scale
Inscribed
(verso) as above, dimensions given and Charles Collyer Esqr
Signed and dated
- 9 July 1789
(recto) Copy July 9th 1789 - 10 July 1789
(verso) Copy July 10th 1789
Medium and dimensions
Hand
recto and verso John McDonnell (pupil 1786-91)
Notes
Level
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).