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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 for the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices and preliminary designs for the new Home Office, January-September 1825 (60)
- Design for part of the Board of Trade Offices and entrance to the Treasury Passage, January 1825
- Working drawing for the Board of Trade Offices showing the height of the building, January 1825
- Designs for the Privy Council Offices, February 1825 (5)
- Designs for completing the end of Downing Street, February 1825 (3)
- Designs for the Privy Council Offices, February 1825 (3)
- Design for new Privy Council Offices, February 1825 (2)
- Design for the Downing Street elevation, March 1825
- Designs for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, March 1825 (3)
- Further designs for the Privy Council Offices, March 1825 (5)
- Presentation design for the Downing Street elevation, March 1825
- Design for the front elevation of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices
- Survey drawing of the old Privy Council Office and design for new Privy Council Chamber, March 1825 (2)
- Designs for the frontage of the new buildings including the Home Office, March 1825 (4)
- Presentation design for the new government offices, March 1825
- Designs for new government offices, March 1825 (3)
- Preliminary designs for a pavilion in front of the Home Office, March 1825 (5)
- Design for new government offices with pavilions, March 1825
- Presentation design for new government offices, March 1825
- Design for the new Privy Council Offices, April 1825
- Working drawings for the Privy Council Offices, May 1825 (4)
- Working drawing for the Privy Council Offices, May 1825
- Design for new Home Office, Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, June 1825
- Working drawing for doorways, July 1825
- Design for the entrance hall of the Board of Trade, August 1825
- Design for the government offices including a new building on the south side of Downing Street, August 1825
- Design for the new offices for the Board of Trade, Privy Council and Home Department, September 1825
- Working drawings for the entrance hall and principal staircase of the Board of Trade, September 1825 (3)
- Working drawings for the Privy Council Offices, September 1825 (2)
- Working drawing for the Privy Council Offices, September 1825