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This scheme is composed largely of conservatories as screens to blank walls. Astley has noted that in these proposed enlargements, Adam mixed styles to give a picturesque effect, including neo-Norman, Tudor, neo-Palladian and castle-style.
Adam's elevation of the principal front (Adam volume 29/93) was clearly drawn as a finished drawing, and then altered. The drawing is composed of three sheets. The central sheet is part of a finished drawing which has been severely cropped, and new, less finished drawings have been affixed to either side.
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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Contents of Preliminary designs, designs and a finished drawing for the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted (7)
- [1] Design showing a plan of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted
- [2] Preliminary design showing a detail of the principal front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted
- [3] Design showing a detail of the principal front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted
- [4] Design showing a part plan and elevation for the principal front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted
- [5] Preliminary design showing an elevation of the garden front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted
- [6] Design showing an elevation of the garden front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted
- [7] Finished drawing showing an elevation of the garden front of the first scheme for the house, 1775, unexecuted