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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of Alterations to the house, 1790-1794, 1800 (28)
- Survey drawings, 1790 (4)
- Presentation drawing showing a survey of the ground floor, 5 July 1790
- Preliminary design for the drawing room, datable to January 1791
- Survey drawing with a design for the drawing room, 3 April 1791
- Design and working drawing for the secondary staircase, water closet and maid's closet in the west courtyard, April 1791 (2)
- Design, presentation drawing and working drawing for additions to the ante-library, April and November 1791 (3)
- Presentation drawing of the first floor, with later alterations to include an east secondary staircase and top-lighting, 5 August 1791
- Designs and record drawing for plaster finishings to the drawing room, July and August 1791 (3)
- Presentation drawings of the drawing room, 8-12 December 1791 (3)
- Working drawing for the drawing room chimney-piece, 16 February 1792
- Presentation drawings of the drawing room, for exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1792 (2)
- Design for finishings to the drawing room walls, as executed, May 1792
- Working drawing for a chimney-piece, 21 June 1792
- Surveys and a design for the office range, December 1792 and January 1793 (3)
- Design for alterations to the first floor, 1800