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Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms
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Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms
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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 interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms
- Copy of a detail of James Stuart's interior decorative scheme for Kedleston, 1758, unexecuted (1)
- Preliminary designs and a record drawing for alternative designs for the ceiling for the hall, 1760-61, unexecuted (4)
- Preliminary design for the saloon, 1760, executed with alterations (1)
- Finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1760, as executed (1)
- Preliminary design and alternative designs for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760 (3)
- Design and alternative finished drawing for a sofa, and finished drawing for a chair, for the drawing room, 1762, sofa executed with alterations and delivered in 1762 (3)
- Design and record drawing for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1765 and 1767 (2)
- Alternative designs for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1760 (2)
- Preliminary design for the Dining room Cieling at Kedleston, 1761, as executed (1)
- Preliminary design and finished drawings for the walls of the dining room, 1762 (5)
- Record drawings for the urn and cistern of a seventeenth-century wine fountain, c1760-62 (3)
- Record drawing for a chestnut vase designed by James Stuart, c1760-62, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Record drawing of a wine cooler designed by James Stuart, c1760-62 (1)
- Record drawings of a tripod perfume burner designed by James Stuart, c1760-62 (3)
- Record drawing for a plate warmer designed by James Stuart, c1760-62 (1)
- Preliminary designs and designs for variant sauce boats and sugar shakers, c1760-62 (9)
- Unfinished rough preliminary design for a cup, c1760-62 (1)
- Design for a plate warmer, c1760-62 (1)
- Design for an urn motif plasterwork ornament, c1760-62 (1)
- Record drawing for a ceiling for Lady Scarsdale's dressing room, 1760 (1)
- Preliminary designs for cornices and dados, possibly for the family pavilion, 1760 (1)
- Designs for the library, 1760, executed with alterations (5)
- Finished drawing for the 'mosaic' ceiling for the library, 1761, as executed (1)
- Design and record drawings for unknown ceilings, 1761 (2)
- Preliminary design and record drawing for the ceiling of the music room, 1761, as executed (2)
- Design for the music room, 1762, unexecuted (1)
- Preliminary design for a cornice for the music room, c1761-62 (1)
- Preliminary designs and finished drawings for alternative designs for an organ case, 1762 (5)
- Record drawing for the ceiling of the state dressing room, 1761, unexecuted (1)
- Record drawings for the great staircase, 1761, executed with a upper balcony and the cove removed (2)
- Design for a ceiling for the staircase, 1761 (1)
- Preliminary design of a frieze for the staircase, 1761, unexecuted (1)
- Finished drawing for a ceiling for the state bed chamber, 1767 (1)
- Finished drawings for variant ceilings for the state dressing room (now the boudoir), 1767, unexecuted (2)
- Preliminary design for the layout of the painted breakfasting parlour, with pencil annotations showing the arrangement of the ceiling, 1768, unexecuted (1)
- Finished drawings for the painted breakfasting room, 1768, unexecuted (2)
- Record drawing for a ceiling for the circular dressing room, March 1768, unexecuted (1)
- Preliminary designs and finished drawings for the walls of the book room, 1768, unexecuted (5)
- Finished drawing and record drawing for the book room, April 1768, unexecuted (2)
- Preliminary designs and designs for unknown carpets, c1759-68 (5)