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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: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, 1823-24 (66)
        Measured drawings for the Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms, ?January 1824

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Reference number

SM 51/7/1

Purpose

Cover sheet

Aspect

Cover sheet; (verso) plan and section through the Prince's Chamber

Inscribed

Sketches of the Royal Gallery / and Committee Rooms / House of Lords / as executed 1823-1826 / 8 Sheets, (pencil) Adam Recess / Drawer / 8 Sheets 1824 / I D p 179 and (recto and verso, pencil) dimensions given

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on wove paper with one fold mark (230 x 415)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The cover sheet to a set of survey drawings recording the Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms as executed, to the left of the sheet is a part plan in pencil for a part of the Royal Gallery or Committee Rooms. The verso has a plan and section that show the former Prince's Chamber, part of the medieval Palace of Westminster that dated to the reign of Henry III (1207-1272). The chamber has one entrance in the west wall, shown in the section to the right, and two entrances in the north wall. The verso is independently numbered as SM 51/7/8.

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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