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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 Interior decoration
- Design for a chimneypiece for the hall in the east range by Joseph Wilton, c1760 (1)
- Preliminary design for a pier glass frame for the eating room, 1767, as executed (1)
- Record drawing for a sideboard table for the eating room, 1767, as executed (1)
- Design for a chair for the eating room, c1767, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Preliminary design and design for a curtain cornice for the eating room, 1768, executed with alterations (2)
- Record drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, c1766-73, executed with alterations (1)
- Design for the drawing room chimney grate, 1773, unexecuted (1)
- Designs for a mirror frame for the drawing room, 1767, unexecuted (2)
- Unfinished preliminary design for a carpet for the drawing room, c1767-79, as executed (1)
- Preliminary design and working drawings for a commode in the drawing room, 1773, executed with alterations (6)
- Working drawings for medallions for the commode, c1773 (7)
- Record drawing for a ceiling for the library, 1766, as executed, but to a different colour scheme (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the library, 1766, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Record drawing for a ceiling for the new hall in the west range, 1767, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1768, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Preliminary design for a candelabra and wall bracket for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations (1)
- Preliminary design for a long stool for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations (1)
- Preliminary design for a ceiling for the great staircase, 1768, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Preliminary design for hanging lanterns for the staircase, c1768-79, executed with alterations (1)
- Variant preliminary design, design and finished drawing for a girandole for the gallery, 1770, executed with alterations (3)
- Finished drawings for a ceiling for the tapestry room, 1772, as executed (2)
- Variant finished drawing and record drawing for a carpet for the tapestry room, 1775, drawing 50 as executed (2)
- Variant unfinished design and record drawing for a mirror frame for the tapestry room, 1775, drawing 52 executed with minor alterations (2)
- Finished drawing for a console table for the tapestry room, 1775, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Finished drawing for a tripod pedestal for the tapestry room, 1776, as executed (1)
- Variant finished drawing and record drawing for a ceiling for the state bedchamber, 1772-73, drawing 56 executed with alterations (2)
- Unfinished design and finished drawing for a pier glass frame for the state bedchamber, 1775, drawing 58 as executed (2)
- Preliminary design, and variant finished drawings for the state bed, 1775-76, drawings 61-62 as executed (4)
- Finished drawing for a counterpane for the state bed, 1776, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Variant unfinished design and record drawing for a carpet for the state bedchamber, 1778, drawing 64 as executed (2)
- Working drawing for a curtain cornice for the state bedchamber, 1776, as executed (1)
- Finished drawing for an overmantel mirror frame for the state bedchamber, 1777, executed with alterations (1)
- Finished drawing for a armchair for the state bedchamber, 1777, as executed (1)
- Variant preliminary design and finished drawing for a chimney board for the state bedchamber, 1778 (2)
- Variant finished drawing and record drawings for a ceiling for the Etruscan dressing room, 1772, drawing 73 as executed (3)
- Finished drawings and record drawings for the walls of the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, as executed (6)
- Preliminary designs for door panels for the Etruscan dressing room, c1775-77, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Finished drawing and record drawing for a carpet for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775 (2)
- Variant unfinished design and finished drawing for a pier glass frame for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, drawing 84 executed with minor alterations (2)
- Alternative designs for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, drawing 86 executed with minor alterations (2)
- Working drawing for a curtain cornice for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, as executed (1)
- Variant preliminary design and design for a chimney board for the Etruscan room, 1777 (2)
- Alternative preliminary design, finished drawings and record drawing for a fire screen embroidery design for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776-77 (5)
- Unfinished design for a tripod pole screen for the Etruscan dressing room, and preliminary design for an alternative border for this screen, 1779 (2)
- Design for a sideboard table and mirror frame for the breakfast room, 1777, as executed (1)
- Unfinished record drawing for a four-poster bed for the yellow taffeta bedchamber, 1779, as executed (1)
- Preliminary design for an overmantel mirror frame for Mr and Mrs Child's bedchamber, 1779, unexecuted (1)
- Variant record drawings for a ceiling for the octagonal vestibule, 1779 (2)
- Record drawings for friezes for the hall, passages, staircase, library, drawing room, tapestry room, Etruscan dressing room, and state bedchamber, ND, as executed (3)
- Designs for unknown borders, 1777-79, unexecuted (2)
- Preliminary design and design for a work bag, 1776 (2)
- Preliminary designs, finished drawing and record drawings for embroidery designs for a circular pole screen, 1779, unexecuted (6)