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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Cockley Cley, Norfolk: designs for alterations and additions to the offices for John Richard Dashwood, 10 August 1790 (2)

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Reference number

SM 29/5B/2

Purpose

[2] Copy of design

Aspect

Ground floor Plan of the intended Alterations and Additions to the Offices with new Brewhouse, Coals and La[u]ndry

Scale

bar scale of 1/9 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, existing rooms labelled: Washouse, Wet Larder, Dry Larder, Kitchen, Scullery, Lobby, Bakehouse, Covered Way (twice) and detached Dairy fronted by four columns

Signed and dated

Copy Aug^t10^th 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on thin laid paper ('copy paper' see notes below) (522 x 629)

Hand

John Sanders (1784-90)

Literature

D. Stroud, Sir John Soane architect, 2nd ed., 1996, p.241; P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.168

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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