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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

SM volume 42/72A

Purpose

Working drawing

Aspect

Elevation

Scale

bar scale of 1½ ins to 1 ft (1/8 full size)

Inscribed

Lord Craven, W and E, 2 feet and 4:3

Signed and dated

datable to 1774-5

Medium and dimensions

Pen on tracing paper (272 x 151)

Hand

traced by Soane, Henry Holland office

Notes

'Lord Craven' refers to 6th Lord Craven of Benham Place, Berkshire. The house was built by Henry Holland in collaboration with Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1774-5 (H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, 3rd ed., 1995). The elegant weather vane has a waisted baluster-like stem, an elegant arrow-shaped vane and compass letters.A mis-numbering of drawings in this volume by an earlier curator has resulted in two drawings being numbered 42/72.

Literature

D.Stroud, Henry Holland, 1966, pp.36-9

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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