[25] Design for the library, 22 October 1789

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Reference number

SM 28/6/20

Purpose

[25] Design for the library, 22 October 1789

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations

Scale

bar scale of 3/16 inch to one foot

Inscribed

Section of Finishings to Library, Library, AAA (twice), Bookcase (four times), Closet, Plaister (7 times), flush bead (3 times), flush, Wainscot (6 times), Angle bead in Plaister (twice), Pilaster (12 times), Standard (4 times), angle bead (twice), Sq^r(twice), AAA these Widths of Bookcases to be equal, some dimensions given and (Bailey) Shottisham

Signed and dated

22 October 1789
Copy October 22^nd 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer, on laid paper (642 x 519)

Hand

Sanders, John (1768--1826), draughtsman
John Sanders (pupil 1 September 1784-90)

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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