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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 Design and working drawings, May 1824-26 (21)
- [420] First design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 6 May 1824
- [421] Revised design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 6 May 1824
- [422] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 13 May 1824
- [423] Finished drawing, alternative penultimate design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 13 May 1824
- [424] Record drawing, alternative penultimate design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 13 May 1824
- [425] Finished drawing, alternative penultimate design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 13 May 1824
- [426] Record drawing, alternative penultimate design, Court of King's Bench, 13 May 1824
- [427] Duplicate alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 10 July 1824
- [428] Working drawing, final design, Court of King's Bench, 1824
- [429] Record drawing, final design, New Law Courts, after May 1824
- [430] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, c 1824-25
- [431] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, c 1824-25
- [432] Final design, Court of King's Bench, 30 September 1824
- [433] Final design, Court of King's Bench, 30 September 1824
- [434] Presentation drawing, alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 18 January 1825
- [435] Presentation drawing, alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 18 January 1825
- [436] Alternative design, Court of King's Bench, c 1824-25
- [437] Record drawing, Court of King's Bench, April 1825
- [438] Record drawing, New Law Courts, 1826
- [439] Record drawing, The Stone Building, after 6 February 1826
- [440] Survey on completion, Court of King's Bench, 1826