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The balustraded roof (Adam volume 30/92) suggests a viewing platform at roof level, but no staircase is shown in the plan (Adam volume 30/94), and therefore, the balustrade may be purely ornamental.
The greenhouse is not known to have been executed, and these designs may have been made at any time from Sir Edward Dering's succession in 1762. The design is, however, comparable to the greenhouses which Adam designed during the early years of his practice for Croome Court and Kedleston Hall. It is likely, therefore, that this greenhouse design was made during the 1760s.
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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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Contents of Finished drawing and record drawings for a greenhouse, c1762-92, unexecuted (3)
- [1] Finished drawing for a greenhouse, c1762-92, unexecuted
- [2] Record drawing for a greenhouse, c1762-92, unexecuted
- [3] Record drawing for a greenhouse, c1762-92, unexecuted