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- Welbeck Street 10 Decr. 1[7]89
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As Soane was making some minor alterations to pre-existing buildings in 1789 it seems likely that drawing 1 shows a chimney-piece designed to be added to one of those older parts of the Bank. The design is very simple (compared to Soane's other chimney-piece designs) and consists of jambs and a frieze section with only incised panels to ornament them.
The design may have been used as a model for many chimney-pieces in different rooms throughout the bank.
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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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