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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 42/166: John Soane (1753-1837): recto: Title page and villa for £280, verso: Gothic villa, 1777

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Reference number

SM volume 42/166 recto

Purpose

Sketch designs

Aspect

Layout of title page of Soane's designs in architecture (published 1778) consisting of a scrolled tablet with on it: (pencil) Designs / in / Architecture / in the Grecian Gothic & Moresque styles / consisting of / Mausoleums, Temples, (pen) Casines (pencil) Garden seats & Recesses / Baths, Obelisks, Dairy houses / Hot houses & Green houses & other buildings / for the embellishing of / Parks, Pleasure Grounds & / ~~Forests~~ Gardens & Forests / Engraved on 30 Copper Plates / Mihi turpe relinque est (it is shameful to be left behind). The published title page reads: 'Designs in architecture consisting of plans, elevations and sections, for temples, baths, cassine, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure-ground (sic), parks, forests, &c &c. Engraved on 39 copper-plates, by John Soan'; and (for a villa for £280) ground floor plan, variant plans to a smaller scale and front elevation

Inscribed

as above, (villa) some dimensions given and 280 £

Signed and dated

datable to 1777 (see verso)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper with dabs of red sealing wax and folded to fit (377 x 262)

Hand

Soane

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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