Preliminary ? record drawing

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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 42/72: John Soane (1753-1837): Interior with ornament and (42/72A): Henry Holland (1745-1806): Weather vane for Benham Place, Berkshire for 6th Lord Craven, 1774-5

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Reference number

Volume 42/72

Purpose

Preliminary ? record drawing

Aspect

Rough internal wall elevation and elevations of pedimented doorways and (unrelated ?) semicircular windows showing decorative treatment that includes peacocks, chimera, winged figure, half-figure, putto, sphinx, festoons and swags. Small feint pencil elevations of two-storey, three-bay pedimented building or part of a building, and four-column ? portico

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on laid paper, crumpled and torn and with several fold marks (281 x 199)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

n/a pasted down

Notes

Presumably an initial record of a room interior in ? Italy that was evidently torn, screwed up, thrown away and then rescued. The wall elevation/section has an alcove with a statue of Hercules flanked by frames for paintings.

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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