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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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Contents of Designs and working drawings for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, December 1823-October 1824 (106)
- Preliminary designs for new Board of Trade Offices, 1823 (2)
- Designs for new Board of Trade Offices, December 1823 (6)
- Designs for the ground and first floors of the new Board of Trade Offices, January-February 1824 (6)
- Designs for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, February 1824 (6)
- Designs for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, February 1824 (5)
- Design for the first floor of the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, March 1824
- Survey drawing of the old Council Offices, April 1824
- Survey drawings of the site of the new Board of Trade and Privy Council offices showing excavated ground (5)
- Survey drawing of the Old Tennis Court containing the offices of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1824
- Further designs for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, May 1824 (3)
- Designs for ground and first floors of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, June 1824 (6)
- Further designs for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, June 1824 (4)
- Variant designs for the entrance and centre of the façade, June 1824 (3)
- Designs for ground floor, first floor and façade of the new Board of Trade Offices, June 1824 (5)
- Design for the façade of the new Board of Trade Offices, June 1824
- Designs for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices with balustrade and attic added later, June 1824 (4)
- Designs showing a comparison of three-quarter and whole columns, June 1824 (2)
- Design retaining the Tivoli order, June 1824
- Design for the ground floor of the new Board of Trade Offices, July 1824
- Designs for new Privy Council Offices, July 1824 (2)
- Working drawing for part of the front elevation, July 1824
- Design for the rear elevation of the new Board of Trade Offices, July 1824
- Working drawings for window jambs, July 1824 (2)
- Working drawings for the 'long passage', July 1824 (2)
- Designs for the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, ?July 1824 (2)
- Designs for the rear elevation of the new Board of Trade Offices, July 1824 (2)
- Alternative designs for the front entrance using different orders, July 1824
- Design for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices using the order of the Temple of Jupiter Stator (Castor and Pollux) at Rome, July 1824 (3)
- Working drawings for one of the bays on the front of the new building, July 1824 (3)
- Design for the basement of the new Board of Trade Offices, August 1824
- Working drawing for the Board of Trade Offices, August 1824
- Working drawings for columns, and architraves over windows, August 1824 (4)
- Working drawing for the upper part of the frontage, September 1824
- Working drawing for the north end and roof of the new building, September 1824 (2)
- Working drawings for an entablature based on the order of the Temple of Jupiter Stator (Castor and Pollux) at Rome, September 1824 (2)
- Working drawings for a new entrance to the Treasury Passage, September 1824 (2)
- Design for the Board of Trade Offices and entrance to the Treasury Passage, September 1824
- Working drawing for the balustrade, September 1824
- Working drawings for the roofs, September 1824 (2)
- Working drawing for the cornices of the attic and balustrade, September 1824
- Designs for the balustrade to the basement, September 1824
- Design and working drawing for the ground floor of the Board of Trade Offices, September 1824 (2)
- Working drawings for the Board of Trade Offices, October 1824 (3)