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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 Adam volume 19
- Academic exercises showing an Ionic column with urn on top and rosette and vertical swags on the base. Beside this is an obelisk on two balls with a garland in relief in the base.
- Academic exercise showing an Ionic column with urn on top and rosette and vertical swags on the base. Beside this is an obelisk on two balls with a garland in relief on the base.
- Academic exercise showing a single-bay pavilion with round-headed window with balustrade at the foot between pilasters. Below is the plan indicating four symmetrical elevations with an interior chimneypiece.
- Academic exercise showing plan and elevation of a single-bay pavilion with round-headed window with balustrade at foot between pilasters. Below the plan are four symmetrical elevations with an interior chimneypiece.
- Academic exercise showing plan and elevation of a pavilion with modillion pediment above a three-bay opening of Ionic columns beneath a round arch. Below is a plan showing a square interior with chimneypiece.
- Academic exercise the plan and elevation of pavilion with modillion pediment above a three-bay opening of Ionic columns beneath a round arch. Below this is a plan showing a square interior with chimneypiece.
- Academic exercise showing the plan and elevation of a stepped dome octagon that has a pedimented doorway with decorative panel above flanked by two windows with swags and rosettes above. Below the plan shows eight openings, one a doorway and that opposite blind to the chimneypiece.
- Academic exercise showing the plan and elevation of a stepped dome octagon that has a pedimented doorway with decorative panel above flanked by two windows with swags and rosettes above. Below, the plan shows eight openings, one a doorway that opposite blind to the chimneypiece.