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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 42/28: John Soane (1753-1837): Triumphal arch, Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire, 4 May 1800

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Reference number

SM volume 42/28

Purpose

Variant sketch design

Aspect

Rough part-plan, and elevation of a two-storey triumphal arch 23.7½ high

Inscribed

dimensions and calculations given

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on thin laid paper (201 x 322)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

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

Notes

The next design (42/29) is much the same as this one. However, in the second drawing Soane was working on the proportions so that, for example, the height is reduced by 3 feet 3 inches but an elongated tablet-like parapet about 2 feet high has been added; as built, this became a parapet. The total width of 24 feet 4½ inches remains the same in both designs. Drawing 42/29 is closest to the built design. See 42/29 for general note on Aynhoe Park

Level

Drawing

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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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