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According to Bolton Adam volume 41/17 was produced by Adam on the spot.
Observation of the published plans for Compton Verney in Vitruvius Britannicus (1771) show some minor alterations in the arrangements of the rooms from Adam's plan (Adam volume 41/19), suggesting that some of the early eighteenth-century interior was preserved.
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of Designs and a view for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations (6)
- [1] Design for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
- [2] Design for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
- [3] Design for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
- [4] Design for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
- [5] Design for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations
- [6] Design and a view for the house, 1760, executed with minor alterations