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48 Sections of the different
49 Sections of the different Strata of Earth as bored from the / Foundation of intended Site for State Paper Office
50 Sections through Foundation for New State Paper Office / as settled by Mr Soane and the foundations of Lady Suffolk's house; (verso) rough details of the Picture Room, 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields
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48 as above, labelled: A, B, C, D, E, To Mould or Peat Earth, Sand and Loom (sic) (5 times), Peat Earth (5 times), Soft quick sand (4 times), loose stoney / Gravel (5 times), Blue Clay (5 times), [distance] To Gravel and To Clay, a Vein of soft sand (twice), a Vein of sand & Gravel (twice), Sand and Gravel and dimensions given
49 as above, labelled: water, A, B, C, D, E, Sand and / Loam (5 times), Peat Earth (5 times), soft quick / sand & Gravel (4 times), loose Stony / Gravel (5 times), blue Clay (5 times), soft sand (twice), sand or gravel, Section of the Old / Foundation Wall, 3in planking / 9x9 Oak sleepers, Duke Street, Mr Farquhars House, A, B, C, D, E and dimensions given
50 as above, labelled: Sand & Gravel, Peat, Peat Earth, Broken Granite laid in / layers and grouted, Broken Granite, York Landing (twice), Sleeper (twice), Planking, Oak Sleeper, Plank, Old Wall, Water, Level of St James' Park, Floor of New Building and dimensions given
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- 3 April 1830 - 7 April 1830
(47) April 3rd 1830 (48) April 3d 1830 (49) April 5th 1830 (50) 7th April 1830
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On the verso of drawing 50 are rough details of the Picture Room at the rear of 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Soane office Day Books record Charles James Richardson making 'drawings of the Picture Room on stone' between 19 and 30 March 1830, probably in preparation for the first edition of the Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane, Architect (1830).
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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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