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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 42/55: John Soane (1753-1837): Government House, York, Upper Canada, 13 November 1818

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Reference number

SM volume 42/55

Purpose

Variant sketch designs

Aspect

Three rough plans of ground floor, rough elevation of ? fountain and (verso) another variant plan of ground floor

Inscribed

Rooms labelled: Kitc[hen], Back Cou[rt], Lib.[rary], d-- (illegible), Breakf[ast room], draw[ing room], Eat[ing room], Ball[room], some dimensions given and calculations, and (pencil) Asylum / Preacher / M^rRichardson; (verso, pencil) rooms labelled

Signed and dated

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Medium and dimensions

Pencil, brown pen on laid paper (237 x 377)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

fleur-de-lis and 1810

Notes

These variant plans precede seven more (on four sheets, SM 73/4/1-4) dated 16 and 23 November 1818. William Hamilton, Provincial Agent had asked Soane to design an Assembly, Legislative Council, Courts and accommodation for officials as well as a Residence but the project never got beyond these initial designs.

Literature

D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed., 1996, p.276; G.Darley, John Soane: an accidental Romantic, 1999, p. 251

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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