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The friezes for the gallery, staircase, hall, hall doors, dining room (later the library), drawing (tapestry) room, and study are all shown as executed and survive in situ. That for the circular room on the first floor was not executed, or was replaced by William Belwood in c1790. That for the staircase is found on the lintel above the screen of columns on the ground storey.
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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, ND, most as executed (2)
- [51] Record drawing for friezes for the gallery, great staircase and hall, ND, as executed
- [52] Record drawing for friezes for the hall doors, dining room, drawing room, circular room and study, ND, all but that for the circular room as shown as executed