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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 42/164: John Soane (1753-1837): Lodge and entrance gate for Tyringham House, Buckinghamshire for William Mackworth Praed MP, 14 April 1794

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Reference number

SM volume 42/164

Purpose

Sketch design

Aspect

Front elevation

See Tyringham House, drawing 45, for full catalogue of volume 42/164

Inscribed

Tyringham

Signed and dated

April 14. 1794

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on wove paper (189 x 364)

Hand

Soane

Notes

Soane's sketch elevation is close to the executed design except for the treatment of the parapets that are shown here as continuous and without the addition of short blocking courses and also without the strigilated chimney pots that, in any case, have since been removed. A plan also dated 'April 14. 1794' (SM 62/8/22) and a sheet with plan, elevations, section and details (SM 62/8/23) dated 'April 16^th1794' closely relate to the design catalogued here.
See also (this) volume 42/45, 42/133, 42/147, and SM 3/5/1-46 and the Concise Catalogue for further drawings for Tyringham.

Literature

N.Pevsner & E.Williamson, Buckinghamshire, 1994, pp. 703-6; D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.169-74; G.Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, pp.106-110; M.Richardson and M.Stevens, John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, pp.128-39

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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