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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 London
- The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
- Aislabie House, 12 Grosvenor Square, record drawings for ceilings, for William Aislabie, pre 1781, possibly executed (2)
- Aldersgate Street, number 152, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for the Hon. Thomas Harley, 1771 (5)
- Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
- Arlington Street, number 19, London: unexecuted designs for an extension, and executed designs for interior decoration, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66, (11)
- Arlington Street, number 23, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for Sir George Colebrooke, 1771 (16)
- Ashburnham House, 19 Dover Street, London, for John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, c1773-76 (47)
- Audley Square, number 9, London: unexecuted designs for a ceiling for 2nd Earl De La Warr, 1772 (4)
- Bedford Square, number 8, designs for ceilings and a frieze, for George Stainforth, c1779, unexecuted (5)
- Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
- Berkeley Square, number 39, London: designs for friezes for the 3rd Duke of Ancaster, ND (2)
- Bloomsbury Square (possibly no. 40), finished drawing for a house, for Richard Wilbraham Bootle, ND, unexecuted (1)
- Bolton House, Southampton Row, London: designs for interior decoration for the 6th Duke of Bolton, June 1770 - August 1777, demolished 1913 (30)
- Buckingham House (later Buckingham Palace), The Mall, London: designs for the interior, an illumination, rebuilding the palace, and a pianoforte, for King George III and Queen Charlotte, 1761-1763, and 1780 (25)
- Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: unexecuted design for an entrance screen, for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, 1767 (1)
- Cavendish Square (unknown number), London, preliminary design for a house, ND, unexecuted (1)
- Chandos House, Queen Anne Street, number 1 (now number 2), London: designs for interior decoration, built and decorated as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1769-72 (8)
- Charlotte Street, number 8 (now 10 Bloomsbury Street), London: executed designs for a ceiling and frieze for Mr Lyte, 1773 (2)
- Charlotte Street, number 9 (later 4 Bloomsbury Street), London: interior decoration and furnishings for George Keate, 1772-78 (22)
- Conduit Street, London, (unknown number), designs for a house, offices, and a garden porch, for Sir John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval, possibly executed, c1786 (11)
- Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
- Cumberland House, 86 Pall Mall, London: designs for the interior, and additions to the house for the Duke of Cumberland, August 1780 - January 1788 (69)
- Curzon Street, number 30, Westminster: designs for interior decoration, furniture and plate for the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, 1771-73 (18)
- Dover Street, number unknown, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for Dr Richard Warren, 1775-76 (8)
- Downing Street, number 15, Westminster, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for John Sargent, 1764-65 (13)
- Fife House, Whitehall, London: designs for interior decoration, for James Duff, 2nd Earl of Fife, 1766-67 (4)
- Fitzroy Square, London, preliminary designs and finished drawings for the east and south sides of Fitzroy Square, c1790, as executed (3)
- Foley House, Portland Place, London: unexecuted design for a ceiling for Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley, by an unknown architect, 1762 (1)
- Frederick's Place, number 6 (The Great House), London, Mr. Adam, 1776 (6)
- Great George Street, number 10, London and an unknown site for Henry Drummond, 1765-1781 (13)
- Great George Street, number 28, London, designs for mirror frames for the drawing rooms for Sir James Eyre, c1789, unexecuted (3)
- Grosvenor Square, number 5, London: executed designs for two chimneypieces for the 5th Duke of Beaufort, 1768 (2)
- Grosvenor Square, number 18 (later 19), London: executed and unexecuted designs for interior decoration for the 8th Earl of Thanet, 1764-66 (14)
- Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
- Grosvenor Square, number 25 (later number 28), London: designs for interior decoration for Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet, 1769-70 (9)
- Grove House, Kensington Gore, London: designs for alterations to the house, for Anne Pitt, 1766-70 (5)
- Hanover Square, number 18, London: designs for a library wing for the 11th Lord Le Despencer, probably executed, 1766-67 (5)
- Harley Street, number 1 (now 2) and Cavendish Square number 16, London, designs for exterior and interior alterations for James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, ND (9)
- Hertford House, 16 Lower Grosvenor Street (now Grosvenor Street), London: design for the ceiling for the drawing room for the 1st Earl of Hertford, possibly executed, 1761 (1)
- Hertford Street, number 10 (now Sheridan House), London: designs for interior decoration for Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne, 1769-71 (15)
- Hertford Street, number unknown, London: unexecuted design for a ceiling for the drawing room for Mrs Stevenson, c1768-72 (1)
- Hill Street, number 23 (now 31), London: designs for redecorating the dressing room for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, 1766 (6)
- Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
- Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
- Hyde Park Corner (site of 145-146 Piccadilly), London: unexecuted designs for a house for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne, c1761 (9)
- Laurence Pountney Lane, Number 4, London, unexecuted designs for ceilings and chimneypieces for Charles Rogers, 1765 (21)
- Little Wallingford House, Whitehall: designs for a screen and gateway, and mirror frames, for Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull, 1761-69, executed to a variant design (5)
- Mansfield Street, London: designs for interior decoration of eight houses, built as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1772-75 (35)
- Mount Street (later 34 Berkeley Square), designs for a porch for Claudius Amyand, 1761-74, unexecuted (3)
- Northumberland House, The Strand, London: designs for the drawing room and dining room for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1770-79 (24)
- Pall Mall, number 34 (later 25), London: executed designs for the house, for Andrew Millar, 1765-66 (11)
- Pall Mall, number unknown, design for a chimneypiece for Mr O' Bryne, ND, unexecuted (1)
- Piccadilly at Hyde Park Corner, number unknown, London: unexecuted designs for a house for the 7th Earl of Barrymore, c1790 (5)
- Piccadilly, number 15 (later number 138-139), London: unexecuted designs for a drawing room ceiling and a frieze for the 2rd Earl of March and Ruglen, 1774 (2)
- Piccadilly, number 79, (now 1 Stratton Street), London: designs for ceilings for the 11th Earl of Eglinton, 1769 (7)
- Piccadilly, number 147, London: unexecuted design for a screen and gateway, for Henry Fox, 1st Lord Holland, 1764 (1)
- Portland House, New Cavendish Street, London: unexecuted designs for a house, a gateway, and a chimneypiece for the 3rd Duke of Portland, c1770-76 (8)
- Portman Square (7 Lower Seymour Street), for Francis Thomas Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry, 1769, possibly executed (5)
- Portman Square, number 5, London: unexecuted designs for ceilings for the 6th Earl of Barrymore, 1770 (4)
- Portman Square, numbers 41 and 21, London: executed and unexecuted designs for alterations, for William Locke, 1765-66 and 1772-78 (9)
- Portland Place, Number 66, London: design for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for Mrs Cornwall, possibly executed, 1783 (1)
- Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
- Sackville Street, number 29, London: executed design for the ceiling for the drawing room, for John Parker, 1770 (3)
- Saville Row, number 10, London: designs for interior decoration for Sir John Griffin Griffin Bt (later 4th Lord Howard de Walden), 1778 (9)
- Soho Square, number 20, London: designs for the house and interior for the Hon. Baron Grant, 1771-72 (27)
- St James's Square, number 11, London: executed design for refacing the house, for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1774 (2)
- St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
- St James's Square, number 33, London: executed designs for the house for the Hon. George Hobart (later 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire), 1770 (12)
- St James's Square, number unknown, London: unexecuted designs for a ceiling and frieze for Mr Hamilton, 1772 (2)
- St Martin's Lane, number unknown, London: designs for mirror frames for Mr Hamilton, c1787 (7)
- Stanhope Street, number 9, London: unexecuted design for a ceiling for the drawing room for the 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil, 1769 (1)
- Wimpole Street, number 37, London: designs for interior decoration for Colonel Sir William Mayne Bt, 1771 (5)