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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 42/154: John Soane (1753-1837): Detail of order in a Primitive Doric style for stables at Betchworth Castle, Surrey for Henry Peters

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Reference number

SM volume 42/154

Purpose

Design

Aspect

Elevation and section of a baseless Doric wooden (with bark) column with , entablature and frieze and (elevation) eaves

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 in to 1 ft approximately

Inscribed

Wood, brick, flints between brick Tryglyphs and some dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil on laid paper with four fold marks (205 x 225)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

C Hatch 1794

Notes

From about 1798, Soane made alterations to Betchworth Castle (see 42/41) as well as, for example, additions such as a greenhouse (42/141) and stables (42/155). See the Concise Catalogue for other drawings for Betchworth.

Literature

D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.177-9; P.Dean, 'Country houses and the Primitive', M.Richardson and Stevens, John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, pp.114-21

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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