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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- 'Original Sketches / Miscellaneous / Architectural / Subjects': album with 195 drawings by Soane, Dance, Holland and others, dated c.1757 to 1818 (volume 42)
  - Volume 42/22: unidentified French architect: ? art gallery

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Reference number

SM volume 42/22

Purpose

Copy of a design

Aspect

Ground floor plan of a square, almost entirely symmetrical building approached at each end through a six-columned portico approached by a wide stair. Each entrance gives on to a pair of wide staircases and there is a square, colonnaded courtyard. Four large compartments of the same size are ranged along each side, each lit by a single window and between each room is a narrow room also lit by a window

Scale

bar scale of tois

Inscribed

as above

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on thin laid paper (324 x 199)

Hand

unidentified French architect

Watermark

Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch within a crowned oval frame

Notes

For the section see 42/23

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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