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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Soane's architectural education: Royal Academy and Italy including measured drawings: 1770-1780
  - Soane's architectural education including theoretical designs made for the Royal Academy Schools and for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1770-80, and in Italy, 1778-80
    - Design for an 'Academy of Arts' exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1776, and copies 1795-1796 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 62/77

Purpose

[4] Record drawing

Aspect

Copy of plan and elevation to a reduced scale

Scale

bar scale of 1/12 in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

(feint pencil) Smirke Oct^r15 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and blue washes on laid paper (365 x 233)

Hand

Robert Smirke (pupil, 1796-7)

Watermark

Notes

This copy of the lost original elevation (and of the plan, to the same scale) was made by Robert Smirke (1780-1867) who, because of a falling out with Soane, was a pupil only from 1796 to 1797. (On Smirke see H.Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, 3rd ed. 1995).

The sculptural programme of the elevation amply demonstrates the building's function.

Jill Lever, September 2005

Literature

P. du Prey, John Soane’s architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.75-6
P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.57-
P. du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 7-8 (further copies)

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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