[3] Record drawing of a casino 36 x 47 feet

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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
    - Alternative designs, and record drawing, for a (hunting) casino, c. 1780 (4)

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Reference number

SM volume 62/31

Purpose

[3] Record drawing of a casino 36 x 47 feet

Aspect

Plan with a wide bow at the rear and a 4-column portico at the front; (very feint pencil) incomplete elevation with 4 Ionic columns to the portico

Scale

bar scale of 2/15 ins to 1 ft

Medium and dimensions

Pen, light red and light sepia washes, pencil on thin laid paper (370 x 234)

Hand

pupil

Watermark

Notes

The astylar bow is more than a half-circle on plan and almost the width of the house so that with three windows, the principal apartment would be well lit. There are no windows to the front - except flanking the front door and one of these is blank, a single large window (to the eating room ?) on the right side and three that are lighting three small rooms including a water closet, on the left. The front door gives on to a dog-leg staircase. Catalogued as a casino rather than a villa because of its compact plan, it might be seen as a development of the plan in SM 45/3/6.

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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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