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Within the context of other chimneypiece designs of the 1760s which are inscribed in pencil in a similar way, it is possible that the pencil inscription on Adam volume 22/235, 11t House / Parlor / Back Parlor, might suggest that Adam had intended to reuse the design at the Adelphi. Indeed, the stiles on this design were duplicated in the chimneypiece of the dining room at 3 Adam Street (Adam volume 24/6). There is clearly some reuse of the design here, although Adam had previously intended this to take place in another room in another house at the Adelphi.
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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 Preliminary design and finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, c1767, as executed (2)
- [1] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, c1767, as executed
- [2] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, c1767, as executed