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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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Contents of Record drawings of the Royal Entrance, January-May 1823
- Record drawing of details in the Royal Entrance, January 1823
- Record drawing of the vestibules between the arcade and the Scala Regia, January 1823
- Record drawing of details of the Royal Entrance, May 1823
- Record drawing of details of the Royal Entrance, May 1823
- Record drawing for details of the Royal Entrance, May 1823
- Record drawing for an unidentified feature of the Royal Entrance