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10 Ground Plan of the late Dowager Lady Suffolks House / Duke Street, Westminster; (verso) plan of the stone courses of St Peter's Church, Walworth
11 Plan of the Ground Story / of the late Dowager Lady Suffolks House / Duke St Westminster; (verso) rough part plan of the ground floor of the old State Paper Office, Great George Street
12 Plan of First Floor / of the late Lady Dowager Suffolks House / Duke Street / Westminster; (verso) plan of the Third Course of Plinth which forms the Lintel of St Peter's Church, Walworth
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10 as above, labelled: Entrance Hall, Grand Staircase, Duke Street and dimensions given; (verso): Pannel (sic) and dimensions given
11 as above, labelled: Front Door, Park, this rises above / the level of Park / 7'9'', Garden, Mr Farquhars House, Pavement (twice), Duke Street, Upper Crown / Street and dimensions given; (verso, pencil) Entrance Hall, Door (3 times), No 2, Presses 2 feet deep, Presses 1ft 6 deep, Office and dimensions given
12 as above, labelled: Principle (sic) Staircase, A, B, C, D, E, (in Soane's hand) From A to B the wall is sunk abt 17½ [inches] / C to B the wall is sunk abt 7½ [inches] / D to C the wall is sunk abt 6 [inches] / E, lowest part / 17½, 11in Sunk and dimensions given; (verso) as above, No 3, 2 feet 3½ inches high, West Front and dimensions given
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- May 1829
(9-11) May 5th 1829 (12) May 6th 1829; (verso) Septr 3th (sic) 1823
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On the versos of drawings 10 and 12 are working drawings for the stone courses of St Peter's Church, Walworth - one of three Commissioners' Churches built by Soane.
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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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