[114-115] Record drawings of plans and elevations (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: official (mostly domeless) designs, July 1794 - February 1795 (134)

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Reference number

SM (114) volume 62/11 (115) volume 62/10 verso

Purpose

[114-115] Record drawings of plans and elevations (2)

Aspect

114 Reduced copies of (plan) drawing 37 (elevation) close to drawing 96 115 Reduced copies of (plan) drawings 38, 39, 40, 41 (elevation) drawing 99

Scale

(114-115) to a very reduced scale

Inscribed

(114) The House of Lords / Design for the Front next the River and Plan of the Principal floor (115) The House of Lords / The front next the River Thames and Plan of the Principal Floor

Medium and dimensions

(114) Pen, burnt umber, sepia and red washes, shaded on thin wove paper (368 x 232), p. 11 of volume 62 (115) pen, sepia and red washes, shaded on thin wove paper (358 x 232), p. 10 verso of volume 62

Hand

Henry Provis (1760-1830, clerk July 1791-February 1802). Provis's ugly but distinctive hand writing reveals him as the draughtsman.

Watermark

(115) IV

Notes

See under Aspect.

Level

Drawing

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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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