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160 Part plan of the ground floor
161 Part plan of the first floor and details of Cornice B and Standard A A A &c; (verso) rough pencil plan of an unidentified room
162 Elevation, plans, sections and details of the bookcases; (verso) details of bookcases
163 Elevation of Skeleton Doors / for Library, Section through skeleton doors and details of Parts of the Doors
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160 labelled: No 2, New State Paper Office, (pencil) A (twice), B (twice), C (twice), D (twice), E (twice), F (3 times), G (4 times), No 1, No 2, No 3, Omit in / Estimate (twice), (See Drawing / No 4) and dimensions of bookcases given
161 labelled: No 3, New State Paper Office, equal (twice), divided equally (twice), eql division (3 times), The Standards, Skirting, Shelves, Doors &c generally / the same thicknesses as those below, A (twice), B (twice), Skeleton Doors as those below, Door, (pencil) No 1, (pencil) No 2, (pencil) No 3, Shelf, Rebate for high doors, Rebate for low doors and dimensions of bookcases given; (verso, pencil) dimensions given
162 labelled: No 4, New State Paper Office, Mem. The Cases to stand detached from the Wall / half an inch every instance, A, B, C, Section of Press A / Drawing No 1, Section of parts of Book-Case, Wainscot (3 times), Deal (3 times), Deal Wrot, Bearer, A, B, C, For depths / See Plans, Two Estimates will be required the one supposing the Cases made / entirely of Deal the other supposing the Ends, Cornice & Doors / of Wainscot and the Standards &c edged with Wainscot as shewn above and some dimensions given; (verso) Standard / Full Size, Rebate for / Door, Shelf, Back
163 as above, labelled: New State Paper Office, (No 5), A (5 times), B (5 times), C (3 times), (Doors to Cases A & B / see Drawing No 1) and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- May 1833
(159-161) L I Fields / May 1833 (162) Lincolns Inn Fields / 20th May 1833 (163) LIF / May 20th 1833
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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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