[23] Design for the ornament of a door

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Town houses
  - London: 21 St James's Square: unexecuted design by Soane, June 1794; as built design by R.F.Brettingham, July 1795, earlier design by Brettingham and Soane's designs for fittings1795, 1797 for the 5th Duke of Leeds, 1794-7
    - Soane's designs for doors and a music table,1795 and 1797 (4)

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Reference number

SM 8/5/4

Purpose

[23] Design for the ornament of a door

Aspect

Part-elevation
(Verso) a pencil list in Soane's hand with ticks that appears to be 'a to do list' , possibly of drawings to be prepared for publication under headings such as 'Town Houses',' Villas',' Prisons',' Mausoleums'. In fact nothing of this nature was published until 1828.

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

The Duke of Leeds
(Verso) a pencil list in Soane's hand with ticks that appears to be 'a to do list' , possibly of drawings to be prepared for publication under headings such as Town Houses, Villas, Prisons, Mausoleums. In fact nothing of this nature was published until 1828.

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields June 13t^h1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, yellow and sepia washes, shaded with single ruled borderon laid paper with a new repair to top left-hand corner (459 x 278)

Hand

see Notes

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

The mouldings are not typically Soanean being elaborate and rather florid so that, for example, the transom has flowers rising from a band of upright acanthus leaves while the jamb tries out four different motifs.
Soane's office Day Book for Saturday 13 June 1795 has an entry: 'Mr Soane took to St James / Sq^r 2 drawings of / parts of back draw^g Room / shew^g the Mold^gs intended / to be gilt on 2 half Sheets of Royal Paper'. Royal paper is generally given as measuring 19 x 24 inches and the drawing catalogued here measures 18 x 11 inches. Perhaps it was half of an 18 x 22 sheet. There is also another entry for that day viz. 'M^r Soane / drawing Ornament / Seward / Good' that might possibly include this drawing.

Level

Drawing

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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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