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93 Section through the drains; (verso) rough sections through a domed or coved ceiling or skylight
94 Section through the drains
95 Plan of The Drains as / finished by / Mr Stutely
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93 labelled: State Paper Office, Old Bricks, lime Rubbish, Clay & Peat, Rubbish, Clay & Peat, Rubbish, Clay & Peat, Landings, Old Drain and dimensions given
94 labelled: Floor line, Ground line, Old Drain and some dimensions given
95 as above, labelled: (pencil) Sink (6 times), G (4 times), B (4 times), Small / Drain as G, 16 Bricks all round, 14 Bricks, 1'3'', 10'', Arrear / Office, Section of Large / Drain as B, 12 Courses, 13 Courses, 19 Courses, 1'10'', 1'6'', Mr Farquhars House
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- November 1830 - December 1830
(92) Novr 26th 1830 (93) Decr 3d 1830 (95) Decr 8th 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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