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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 new government buildings on Whitehall and the completion of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch, December 1825-May 1833 (100)
- Working drawing for the corridor, 1825
- Working drawing for the fascia and mouldings on the Downing Street frontage, December 1825
- Design for a Triumphal Arch and new buildings on the south side of Downing Street, December 1825
- Designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, December 1825 (5)
- Designs for a Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, December 1825 (6)
- Design and working drawing for the Downing Street frontage, January 1826 (2)
- Composites of designs for a Triumphal Arch and the elevation of the buildings on Whitehall, January 1826 (3)
- Designs for the new buildings, 1826 (9)
- Design for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, January 1826
- Composites of designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, January 1826 (2)
- Working drawings for the Privy Council Chamber, February-March 1826 (5)
- Working drawings for the Privy Council Offices, March 1826
- Working drawings for the back elevations, March 1826 (2)
- Design for a Triumphal Arch, March 1826
- Three designs for the end of Downing Street, April 1826
- Designs for the new buildings and Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, April 1826 (2)
- Design for the attic storey of the Privy Council Offices, June 1826
- Designs for the new buildings, June 1826 (3)
- Design and working drawing for the principal staircase of the Board of Trade, June 1826 (2)
- Working drawing for the entrance hall to the Privy Council Offices, July 1826
- Working drawings for the Privy Council Chamber, July 1826 (3)
- Working drawings for the roofs and skylights, November 1826 (3)
- Working drawing for the skylight and corridor
- Variant designs for the new buildings, November 1826
- Presentation drawing of the Triumphal Arch at the end of Downing Street, 1826
- Design for completing the buildings on Downing Street, January 1827
- Working drawing for a model of the Privy Council Offices, February 1827
- Designs for the Privy Council Chamber, April 1827 (2)
- Survey drawings of the temporary Privy Council Chamber, 1827 (2)
- Survey drawings of the new Privy Council Chamber with court furniture, September 1827 (2)
- Survey drawings of the new Privy Council Chamber, September 1827 (3)
- Drawings for 'undecoration' works to the Privy Council Chamber, 1827
- Designs for a Triumphal Arch on Downing Street, November-December 1827 (3)
- Designs for completing the new buildings in Downing Street, December 1827 (6)
- New designs for the Home Office, 1827 (2)
- Working drawings for systems of heating the Privy Council Office, March 1828 (3)
- Presentation drawings of capitals made for the Select Committee inquiry into the Office of Works and Public Buildings, 1828 (2)
- Design for the new government buildings and alterations to the Palace of Westminster, April 1828
- Designs for completing the buildings in Downing Street, 1828 (4)
- Designs for the Triumphal Arch, March 1829 (2)
- Design for completing the new government buildings, March 1829
- Survey drawings of the temporary and new Privy Council Chambers (2)
- Presentation drawing of the new government buildings, 1829
- Presentation drawing made to accompany a model of the new government buildings, 1830
- Survey drawing of the attics of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, May 1833
- Design for improvements to Whitehall and Westminster