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Reference number

Vol 101

Purpose

John Thorpe (c.1565-1655?), Volume of architectural drawings, Bound in calf-covered boards, Rebacked by Soane, insc: Original Drawings/J. Thorpe (430 x 280)

Inscribed

Original Drawings/J. Thorpe

Medium and dimensions

Bound in calf-covered boards, rebacked by Soane, (430 x 280)

Hand

John Thorpe (c.1563 - 1655)

Notes

The drawings, T1 - T276, have been fully catalogued, indexed and illustrated, Pls 1-123, in John Summerson, The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe in Sir John Soane's Museum, Walpole Society, Volume XL, 1966. This can be found on JSTOR:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40086439

For digital images of the Thorpe drawings please contact library@soane.org.uk

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 16 June - 6 September 2009; Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, 18 February - 30 May 2010
Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 17 February - 9 May 2015

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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