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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 42/146: John Soane (1753-1837): Country house in a Palladian style

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SM volume 42/146 recto and verso

Purpose

Sketch design

Aspect

Plan with rectangular centre and two pavilions on left hand side and large service wing on right-hand side, the parts linked by colonnades; (feint pencil) alternative plan; Elevation with loggia (or portico in antis without pediment) and short (four-column) colonnade with pavilion ends. Verso, plan of central part labelled (pencil) Eat^g, Ant[e room], Dr[awing] room twice, Lib[rary] and (pencil) alternative plan to a smaller scale

Inscribed

as above and (recto) Court, Kit[chen], (pencil) Dr, Eatin, Lib. (verso) Eat^g, sums and (pencil) 28

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil, hatching on laid paper (355 x 239)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

Notes

Soane has given up the idea of swept wings seen in previous schemes. He has though, quarter-circle courts as well as a semicircular court. Both this drawing and the previous one(142/145) relate to other of Soane's preliminary designs for a country house in a Palladian style (42/105-6, 115-116) in which upward and downward curved plans are tried, and the elevations have either a double-height portico or a single-storey loggia/portico.It is not known whether Soane had a client and site in mind, nor is it possible to establish a date. The design, draughtsmanship and indecisiveness might suggest an early date. references needed

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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