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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 Surveys of the old Palace of Westminster (13)
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster, 1760-66
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster (Copy from an original of 1718 by William Benson), 25 January 1793
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster with design for alterations overlaid, September 1793
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster (Copy), 10 April 1794
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster
- Record drawing of a design for a new House of Lords (Copy), 19 March 1802
- Survey of Westminster Hall and adjoining offices (Copy), 18 July 1822
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster
- Survey of the north front of Westminster Hall, (Copy) 1807
- Survey of the Palace of Westminster, (Copy) 26 November 1822
- Design for alterations and additions to the Palace of Westminster