Record drawings, 1791 (4)

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  - Cambridge: (unexecuted) University picture gallery, museum and lecture rooms for Senate House, 1791, and design for railings, 1792 (24)

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Reference number

SM (8) volume 66/17 (9) volume 66/18 (10) volume 66/19 (11) volume 66/20

Purpose

Record drawings, 1791 (4)

Aspect

8 Plan and internal elevation/section of museum lit by three oval lanterns 9 Perspectival cross sections through museum and through picture gallery 10 Plan and laid-out wall elevations/sections of a lecture/music room 11 Plan and laid-out wall elevations/sections of a lecture/music room

Scale

(8-11) to differing (unstated) scales

Inscribed

8 (feint pencil) University of Cambridge, Section of Museum 1791 9 (feint pencil) University of Cambridge / View of the Picture Gallery / and Museum 1791 10 (feint pencil) University of Cambridge / Lecture Room 1791 11 (feint pencil) University of Cambridge / Design for Lecture Room 1791

Signed and dated

(8-11) 1791

Medium and dimensions

(8) Pen, sepia, light red, yellow and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (492 x 701 (9) pen, sepia and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (492 x 701) (10-11) pen, sepia, light red and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (492 x 701) (8-11) with one fold mark

Hand

(8-11) Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1788-1794)

Watermark

(8-11) Edmeades & Pine 1791 and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche with GR and 1791 below

Notes

Drawing 8 shows the same design as drawing 6 though to a reduced scale and without the embellishments of museum specimens on the shelves. Drawings 7 and 8 show (to a reduced scale) the same alternative designs for lecture/music rooms as drawings 4 and 5. Drawing 6 has two views of the museum and of the picture gallery that do not appear on drawings 1-7 but are close to drawings 15 and 16.

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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