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16 Plan of the Ground Floor
17 Plan of the First Floor
18 Plan of the upper part of Library and Attic
19 Elevation next the Park
20 Perspective from Duke Street
21 Perspective from the Park
22 Interior perspective of the Library with detail of one of the brackets supporting the gallery
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16 as above, Lincolns Inn Fields, labelled: Duke Street, Messenger / 12'6'' by 13'9'', Water / Closet, Housemaid's / Closet, Reading Room / 12'6'' by 13'9'', Waiting Room, 12'6'' by 19'0'', Staircase, Entrance Hall, 12'6'' by 19'0'', Room / for Keeping / Treaties / 21' by 24', Deputy Keeper / 23'0'' by 17'0'', Room for / the Keeper / of State Papers / 21' by 24'
17 as above, No 3, Lincolns Inn Fields, labelled: Clerks Room, Water Closet, Sink &c, Reading Room, Room for / arranging / unsorted / Papers, Staircase, Clerks / Room, Library for the State Papers &c
18 as above, 4, Lincolns Inn Fields, labelled: Chamber / for / Housekeeper, Reservoir, Staircase, Reading / Room
19 as above, 5, Lincolns Inn Fields, (pencil) No fire places to be / between the Windows / where it can be avoided / Library to be fire proof / d[itt]o the rest of the building
20 (pencil) No 6
21 (pencil) No 7, No 2
22 No 2
Signed and dated
- May 1829 - June 1829
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Notes
Between 9-12 June 1829, Charles Richardson (1809-71) was 'copying sketch of Mr Gandy's of interior of library New State Paper Office', according to the Soane office Day Books. Gandy's original is not known to have survived.
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).