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- Copy Lincolns Inn Fields March 26th 95
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It is known from Soane's office records that he designed a 'cottage' at Dunton Bassett for René Payne but though executed it has not been traced. It is possible that the chimney-piece was for Sulby Lodge (about 12 miles from Dunton Bassett) for whom Soane made an executed design for a new house and unexecuted designs for additions, 1792-5 and 1824 (q.v.). The drawing is catalogued here under Dunton Bassett since that is where it appears in the Concise Catalogue (q.v.).
Jill Lever, November 2012
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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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