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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 Variant designs in a Castle style (19)
- [15] Design for plan of basement in a Castle style
- [16] Variant design for plan of basement in a Castle style
- [17] Another design for plan of basement in a Castle style
- [18] Designs for ground floor plans "'K' and 'L'
- [19] Design for ground floor plan 'L' in a Castle style
- [20] Design for first floor plan 'L' in a Castle style
- [21] Slightly variant design for first floor plan 'L' in a Castle style
- [22] Variant design for first floor plan 'L' in a Castle style
- [23] Design for plan of attic in a Castle style
- [24] Sketch revised design by Soane for the ground floor plan
- [25] Design for front elevation in a Castle style
- [26] Same design for front elevation in a Castle style
- [27] Design for garden elevation 'K' in a Castle style
- [28] Same design for garden elevation 'K' in a Castle style
- [29] Design for garden elevation 'L' in a Castle style
- [30] Copy of design for garden elevation 'L' in a Castle style
- [31] Design for side elevation
- [32] Sketch revised design by Soane for the back elevation
- [33] Later design for elevation in a Castle style