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88 Longitudinal section
89 Longitudinal section
90 Longitudinal section with rooms labelled
91 Longitudinal section and two cross sections of stepped entrance and the Painted Chamber
92 Longitudinal section with rooms labelled
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(90) rooms labelled: The Court of Parliament, The Painted Chamber / and / Conference Room, Lobby to the House of Lords and The House of Lords and titled The Section of a Design to render the House of Lords and the Rooms and Offices appertaining thereto more commodious
(91) titled as drawing 90
(92) rooms labelled: Section through / the Entrance / from / Old Palace Yard, The Court of Requests, The Painted Chamber / and / Conference Room, Lobby / of the / House of Lords, The House of Lords, His Majesty's Robing Room and titled as drawings 90 and 91
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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).