[24] Sketch revised design by Soane for the ground floor plan

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [24] Sketch revised design by Soane for the ground floor plan

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Dunninald House, Craig, Angus: unexecuted designs for David Scott, 1795 (43)
    - Variant designs in a Castle style (19)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 46/1/8

Purpose

[24] Sketch revised design by Soane for the ground floor plan

Aspect

Ground floor plan and (verso) rough (feint pencil) plans by Soane

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

David Scott Esq^re, Sketch of design for proposed House, rooms labelled: The Hall, Gentlemans Dressing Room, Library, Withdrawing Room, Breakfast Room / or / Anti-room, Eating Room, Powder^g Closet, Chamber, ? Peg (twice), Centre A, A Kitchen and a few dimensions given, (pencil) The Walls to be / cased inside with / brick and some calculations

Signed and dated

25/7/1795
J.S. July 25 1795

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, some pencil, hatching, pricked for transfer on coarse wove paper (309 x 515)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)
Frederick Meyer (1775)
Pupil April 1791 - 1796. The Soane office Day Book for 25 July 1795 has an entry: 'Meyer about Plans of House' so that the under-drawing must be in his hand with additions by Soane.

Notes

Most of the previous Castle style plans are dated 16 or17 July 1795. Soane's drawing is dated 25 July and must record his later thoughts for the projected house. There are now six circular turrets, four to the front and two larger ones that give a view of the garden from the breakfast and eating rooms, all are circular with three windows. The drawing room has been given rounded corners and adjustments have been made to the doorways and partitions of the lower, left-hand side.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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).