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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42)
  - Volume 42/60: John Soane (1753-1837): Villa

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Reference number

volume 42/60

Purpose

Sketch design

Aspect

Ground floor plan of six-part villa with Eat[ing]^g Room, Little Eat^gRoom, Library, Drawing Room, Bill[iar]^d Room, entrance hall with two geometrical staircases, and anteroom, and with a portico at front and back

Scale

bar scale of 1/11 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, Columns 3 feet diam[eter], dimensions given and calculations

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on laid paper (221 x 388)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

scrolly ? W encircled (part)

Notes

The villa is approximately 83 feet wide by 47 feet deep and is fronted by a portico in antis with twin coupled columns and a wide stair. The garden entrance is fronted by a wide perron and shallow portico with four columns. This appears to be an early design by Soane but not, for example, related to (Soane's architectural education ... :) Design for a large villa, made in Rome on 11 November 1779 or his (Soane's architectural education ...:) Alternate designs for a (hunting) casino, c.1780. Nor to designs published in, for example, Plans, elevations and sections of buildings, 1788 though the plan for Tendring Hall (plate 18) also has a billiard room which was not often a requirement at that time.

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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