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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 42/29: John Soane (1753-1837): Triumphal arch, Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire, 4 May 1800

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Reference number

SM volume 42/29

Purpose

Variant sketch design

Aspect

Rough plan, elevation and detail of pedestal to column

Inscribed

dimensions and calculations given, and (pen over pencil) M^r Robins / Pullinger / Black

Signed and dated

(pen) May 4. 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen inscriptions on thin laid paper (201 x 322)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

C Patch 1799

Notes

Soane began work on alterations and additions to Aynhoe Park in 1799 and there are drawings (SM 6/4/1-47 and see also Concise Catalogue for the new library, dining room and drawing room with bedrooms above. Twin triumphal arches were built on the north side to link the house with the previously detached office and stable blocks.
Of the names that Soane wrote on his drawing: 'Mr Robins' probably refers to John Robins, auctioneer and estate agent of Warwick Street, Golden Square, London for whom Soane designed Norwood Hall, Norwood Green in what was then Middlesex but is now London. There is a copy set of 9 contract drawings dated 8 July 1801 and other drawings in the Soane Museum (SM 4/4/14-24, 81/2/59). Coincidentally, the front elevation was designed on a triumphal arch theme. (see D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed., 1996, pp.184,207,210,282; G.Darley, John Soane:an accidental Romantic , 1999, pp.154,244,267,292, for information on Robins)
'Pullinger' is John Pullinger, a clerk of works and master carpenter who supplied a design for a roof for Aynhoe (SM 77/1/46). 'Black' has not been traced.

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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