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16 Ground floor plan with slight changes (privies, safe)
17 Plan of the Chamber Floor with proposed Alterations
18 Plan of Chamber Floor with minor changes (closets, size of a dressing room)
19 Plan of the Attic Story with Propos'd Alterations
20 The Front Elevation
21 The Back Elevation
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16 W.B.Simmonds Esqre
17 as above, W.B.Simmonds Esqre, labelled: closet (twice), Laundry, Chamber, Upper part / of Kitchen, Passage, Chamber (four times), Dressing Room (twice), Dressing Room / or / Occasional Chamber, open (refers to roof light), closet (twice)
18 as above and W.B.Simmonds Esqre
19 as above, W.B.Simmonds Esqre, labelled: Roof of Offices, Bedroom (five times) and dimensions given
20 as above and W.B.Simmonds Esqre
21 as above and W.B.Simmonds Esqre
Signed and dated
- (15) Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 1st 1803 (16) not dated (17) Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 1st 1803 (18) not dated (19) Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 1 1803 (20) Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 1st 1803 (21) Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / Feby 1st 1803
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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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