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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 42/78: John Soane (1753-1837): Prescription for an ague

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Reference number

SM volume 42/78

Purpose

List of ingredients

Aspect

(verso) rough part-elevation of three-storey house

Inscribed

An Ounce of Bark, two Drahms of Mithridate, / One Drahm of snake Root - Syrup of Orange / Peel a Sufficient quantity. to make them into an / Electuary - For an AgueTake the quantity of a nutmeg Every three hours / When the ague & fever is off, for a grown Person, half the / Above quantity for a Child.

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid paper with three fold marks (106 x 198)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

scrolly ? W encircled

Notes

'Bark' - The bark of the Cinchona tree, from which quinine is procured (OED).'Mithridate' - Mithridate mustard, a name for the plant Lepidium campestre and Thlaspi arvense...' (OED).'Snake-root' - ... the dried root of Polygala senega and Aristolochia serpentaria used largely in medicine .... One or other of several plants so called from a fancied resemblance to a snake (OED).'Electuary' - A medicine, consisting of a powder, or other ingredient mixed with honey, jam, or syrup (OED).'Ague' - An acute fever. A malarial fever (OED). A 'drahm' is a dram which was an apothecary's weight in which 8 drams equalled one ounce.

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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