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Purpose
Aspect
(verso) Plan and laid-out wall elevations for a circular Drawing Room
Scale
Inscribed
(verso) as above, Honble Mrs Yorke, a. Plan of Pannel in Soffite of Window / b & Flush beads, the whole rail to be wood / to the bottom of Cornice, Jib door, Door into Library, Jib door and two dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c. 1794
(verso, drawing trimmed) J 31st [January or July] 17-- ?
Medium and dimensions
Hand
Soane office
Notes
The drawing room has a circular plan with three tall windows on one side, a chimney-piece on another, a panelled door on another side and a (concealed) jib door on the fourth side that leads into the library.
Level
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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