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Reference number

SM 16/4/26

Purpose

[1] Rough plan by Soane for alterations and additions to the Palace of Westminster, not dated

Aspect

Sketch, block, three-part plan that includes, for example, Chancellor of Exc[hequer] / & / Treasury and House for the Speaker of the House of Lords blocked in with matching overall plan and each having an eight-column portico to back and front

Inscribed

as above, labelled: (pencil) Chancellor of / Excheqr / & / Treasury, (pencil) Speaker of / House of Com[mons], (pen) Painted / Cha[mber], House of Lords, West[minster] Hall, Court of Req[uests], Court of Jurisdiction, Clerk / of / Parl:, (pencil) Court of Jurisdn and (pencil) Clerk / of / Parl.

Medium and dimensions

(1) Brown pen and pencil on thin wove paper (344 x 573)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect

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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