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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 Estate buildings, 1792-1794 (42)
- Designs for a hothouse, 1792 (5)
- Alternative designs for a hothouse, 1792-1793 (3)
- Variant designs for a cottage, April 1793 (2)
- Variant designs for a brick cottage, and one design for a clay cottage, September 1794 (3)
- Preliminary design, working drawing and preliminary presentation drawing for a water reservoir, or 'Castello d'Acqua', 1793 and 1800 (3)
- Presentation drawings of variant designs for an entrance screen, 24 January 1794 (4)
- Presentation drawing and working drawing for the entrance screen, as executed, c. February 1794 (2)
- Survey drawings of the entrance screen, April 1818 (2)
- Presentation drawings of variant designs for a dairy, c. July 1794 (7)
- Design and presentation drawing of the farm yard, one dated 15 May 1794 (2)
- Survey, designs and presentation drawing for siting the farm yard, June and July 1794 (4)
- Working drawing for the barn
- Presentation drawing for a hen house, 5 July 1794
- Surveys of the water pipes and drains, 1749 (3)