[53] Design for the house

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  - Tyringham House, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire: entrance screen, bridge, house, offices, greenhouses and stables for William Mackworth Praed, 1792-1801, record drawings 1808 (169)
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Reference number

SM volume 66/68

Purpose

[53] Design for the house

Aspect

Front elevation

Scale

to a scale of 2/13 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

William Praed Esqr, Tyringham 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and sepia, black and Payne's grey washes, within single-ruled pencil border on laid paper (702 x 495)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

Edmeades & Pine 1794 and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR 1794 below

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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