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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: 43 Hill Street: alterations and additions for 1st Earl Fortescue, 1793-1795 (6)

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Reference number

SM 77/1/45 (verso)

Purpose

Survey

Aspect

1 Rough survey Plan of the Parlour Floor and of the offices to the rear of the garden

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Earl Fortescue, Q^y [Query) Stop up the Door A & place it / and place the Door C in the middle / make Blank door to correspond with C, A B C, rooms labelled: Dining Room, Library, Flatt, Laundry, Ironing Table, Mangle, Hay Loft, Ladder, Coach Mans Room, (?) Grooms Room / 10.0 x 3.0 [feet]

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper, two sheets fastened together with red sealing wax (541 x 611)

Hand

Soane

Notes

Drawn on the verso of a detail of a queen post truss for the 'The Rev^dM^rRichards', this feint pencil drawing was made by Soane. There is an unidentified (feint pencil) plan on the left of the two joined sheets. The survey shows (at ground floor level) the house and the flat roof of the offices and, at the rear of the garden, the laundry and upper floor of the stables.

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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