[1] Presentation design, 1778

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Reference number

SM 45/1/33

Purpose

[1] Presentation design, 1778

Aspect

Floor plan and laid-out wall elevations/sections of a room with a coffered barrel vault ceiling with half-domes at each end. Ten detached Ionic columns outline a rectangular plan with a windowed apsidal end at the east end

Scale

bar scale of 1/4in to 1ft

Signed and dated

1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light green, light blue, pink washes, small pencil alterations, shaded within triple ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (612 x 955)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

C & I Honig

Literature

P. du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, p.116

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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