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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 42/139: John Soane (1753-1837): Dairy

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Reference number

SM volume 42/139 recto and verso

Purpose

Preliminary design

Aspect

Cross section with an alcove and longitudinal section with a pair of looking glasses and a pair of plaques decorated with a butter urn, both with details of counter and of roof frame; (verso) details to a larger scale of junction of roof and wall with gutter, and (to a still larger scale) a half-column with reeding

Scale

(verso, roof detail) bar scale of 1/8 in to 1 in (1/8 full size)

Inscribed

labelled Looking / Glass, Angle bead, (?) Counter and (left hand plaque) indecipherable, and a note Butter churn / surround / with oak leaves / Butter Bats, dimensions given, calculations and (verso) dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, hatching, some pencil on laid paper with two fold marks and folded once to fit (384 x 305)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval frame and L Munn

Notes

Soane designed a notable dairy in 1783. See under Soane: Hammels Park, Hertfordshire: designs for a dairy in a primitive, rustic style for Mrs Yorke, 1783. However, the design catalogued here, differently proportioned and with a tiled or slated roof and reeded columns does not seem to be related to that design unless it was an early idea - later discarded.

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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