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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 42/30: unidentified hand: Monumental pillar

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Reference number

SM volume 42/30

Purpose

Working drawing

Aspect

Elevation

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Sir if any thing you dislike plase to Lett / Me know before y^e Stones be Cutt, This Stone wanting / y^eold part Standing, ^ft98 feet from Ground / To y^eSquare of old / part, 7 ^ft - 3 ^In, To be New Stone, All this part / Moor Stone wanting / which is 22 Stones, Pentoon Stone / In one and dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen on laid paper with four fold marks (228 x 205)

Hand

unidentified

Watermark

TC Horlock

Notes

Presumably sent from a stonemason's yard, the drawing shows (part of) a monumental pillar 98 feet high and 5 feet 6 inches square, and with a tapering top 10 feet high that was to be re-made from new stone. Twenty-two stones and a single, 3 feet 9 inches 'pentoon Stone' were required as well as some stone for the top of the pillar. 'Pentoon' probably derives from 'pent', a sloping roof (OED).

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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