Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Variant designs, December 1792-February 1793 (5)

Browse

Purpose

Variant designs, December 1792-February 1793 (5)

Notes

It is not clear why drawing 7 has the eastern part (lefthand side) shown with a sepia wash. Omitting the domestic offices, drawings 7-11 have the same overall plan form as the executed design. Drawing 7 (dated 22 December 1792) lacks the steps to the garden at the rear, has two windows in the flank wall and has only one (geometric) stair. Drawing 8 (not dated) has steps to the garden, blind windows in the flank wall, and two stairs, the best stair is geometric and the other is a half turn with landings.
Drawing 10 (dated 11 February 1793) is very close to what was probably the executed design (drawing 20, dated 1 March 1793) in which the best stair is an open well stair and the other a half turn with landings stair; the offices wing is the same in both plans. Of the bedroom floor plans (drawings 9 and 11) the flank wall of 11 has a single window while 9 has three as in the (presumably) executed design (drawing 21).

Level

Group

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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).  


Contents of Variant designs, December 1792-February 1793 (5)