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The friezes for the ante room, the second drawing room, the great drawing room, and the Etruscan dressing room (Adam volume 53/6) all correspond with those illustrated in the second volume of The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam (part 1, plates 2, 4 and 5). As such we know that these friezes are shown as executed in Adam's drawing. Further to this, as the house was demolished in 1862, and the other friezes were not shown in the Works, it is not known whether they were executed in accordance with the extant drawings.
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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 Record drawings for friezes for various rooms, ND (4)
- [84] Record drawings for friezes for the hall, staircase and ante room to the eatng parlour, ND; it is not known if these designs were executed
- [85] Record drawings for friezes for the eating parlour, great dining room, library, Lord Stanley's dressing room, and Lord Stanley's closet, ND; it is not known if these designs were executed
- [86] Record drawings for frieze for the ante room, first and second drawing rooms, the great drawing rooms, and the Etruscan dressing room, ND, those for the ante room, second drawing room, great drawing room and Etruscan room as executed, but it is not known if that for the first drawing room was executed
- [87] Record drawings for friezes for the bedchamber and circular closet, ND; it is not known if these designs were executed