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In 1773 the lease was purchased by Barbara Herbert, Dowager Countess of Powis (1735-86), the daughter of William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, and widow of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, who had died one year earlier. The Countess retained the house until 1778.
Number 9 is one of the surviving houses, and Adam's drawing room ceilings remain in situ. It is now used as offices.
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See Mansfield Street scheme notes.
Frances Sands, 2013
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of Mansfield Street, number 9
- Preliminary design and design for a ceiling for the front drawing room for William Cobbett, 1772, as executed (2)
- Design for a ceiling for the back drawing room for William Cobbett, 1772, as executed (1)