Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate the use of the
Corinthian order:
1 Detail of the Corinthian order, on the
Portico of the Pantheon, Rome
2 Detail of the Corinthian order, Portico of
Octavia, Rome
3 View of a student on a ladder, with rod,
measuring the Corinthian order, Temple of
Castor and Pollux (Temple of Jupiter Stator), Rome
4 Detail of a capital, Temple of Castor and Pollux (Temple of Jupiter Stator), Rome
5 Detail of the Corinthian order, Basilica of
Constantine, (Basilica of Maxentius) Rome
6 Detail of the Corinthian order, Temple of
the Sun, Colonna Gardens, Rome
7 Detail of the Corinthian order, Pantheon,
Rome
8 Elevation of a portion of the entablature of
the Temple of Vespasian (Temple of Jupiter Tonans), Rome
9 Diagrams of two Corinthian orders &
entablatures

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate the Composite
order:
1 Capital & entablature, Temple of Bacchus,
Rome
2 Details of entablature, capital & base, Baths
of Diocletian, Rome
3 Capital & entablature, Arch of Titus, Rome

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate Fancy orders:
1 Two columns with perspective of two
temples in background, Egyptian orders
2 Entablature, capital and base for
reconstruction of Solomon's Temple,
Jerusalem
d: 5 June 1809
3 Detail of capital after Villalpandus's
reconstruction of Solomon's Temple,
Jerusalem
4 Detail of capital after Sir William Chambers'
reconstruction of Solomon's Temple,
Jerusalem
d: 20 Oct 1808
5 Detail of capital after Evelyn's Parallèle
(Fréart) for reconstruction of Solomon's
Temple, Jerusalem
6 Entablature, capital & column of French
order
7 Entablature, capital & base of British order
designed by James Adam
8 Design of British order of St George by Henry
Emlyn (c.1729-1815)
9 Entablature, capital & column for a new Britannic
order by Pierre de la Roche
10 Entablature, capital & base for the
Ammonite order used by George Dance the Younger at
Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, 52 Pall Mall (later the British
Institution)

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate colonnades,
arcades, etc:
1 Plan and elevation of a Corinthian peristyle
2 Perspective of an arcade in St Peter's, Rome,
& of a colonnade
3 Elevation of centre part of Arch of
Constantine, Rome, & another similar arch
4 Elevation & section of pilasters attached to
columns as in Vitruvius
5 Plan for a hypoethral temple
6 Elevation of a Royal Palace as designed by
Pierre de la Roche

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate caryatides:
1 Elevations, Erechtheum, Athens
2 Elevation, the Incantada, Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece
3 Elevation, Louvre, Paris, (Jean Goujon), probably
by Henry Parke (Daybook, June 1817)

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate windows & doors:
1 Details of three different types of window
(Italian Renaissance & later)
2 Details of two doors and two windows (Italian
Renaissance & later)
3 Detail of window and façade decoration: by
Ammanati & elevation of arches by Pietro da
Cortona & Cigoli
4 Details of three doorways by Vitruvius

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate mouldings and
ornaments:
1 Eight regular mouldings
2 Five enriched mouldings
3 Five details of antique egg-&-dart
d: 5 June 1813
4 Drawings of ceilings from buildings at Nîmes
after Palladio
5 Drawings of ceilings from buildings at Nîmes
after Clérisseau, Antiquités de la France
6 Detail of festoon between pilasters from
Portico of Pantheon, Rome
7 Friezes of the Temple at Tivoli as adapted by
Palladio, Desgodetz & Soane
8 Details of ornaments in Sir John Soane's
Museum
9 Frieze

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate Egyptian temples
& obelisks:
1-2 Perspectives of Egyptian temples
3 Perspective of the Egyptian temple at
Knuphis, copied from F.L. Norden, Voyage
d'Egypte et Nubie, 1755
4 Perspective of Egyptian temple with rows of
sphinxes lining the approach
5 Plan, Great Temple at Karnak, copied from
R. Pococke, A Description of the East and other
countries 1743-1745
d: 8 May 1807
6 Plan of Solomon's Temple, Jerusalem, after
J. B. Villalpandus
d: 25 April 1807
7 Aerial perspectives showing raising of obelisk
in front of St Peter's, Rome, after Fontana, Della transportione
dell'obelisco Vaticano
8 Perspective showing the transportation of an
obelisk across a river
9 Perspective showing the moving of a rock
pedestal for the Statue of Peter the Great,
St Petersburg, after Carburi, Monument élevé à
la gloire de Pierre le Grand
10 Perspective of obelisk in Piazza Navona,
Rome

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate Indian cave
temples:
1-3 Perspective & plans of Elephanta, near
Bombay
4 Plan of Kailasa, Ellora
5 Plans of Dehr-Warra and Viswa Karma

RA Lecture Drawings to illustrate Stonehenge and
druidical remains:
1-4 Henry Parke (? 1792-1835)
Survey drawings, 1817
1 Plan
d: 21 June 1817
2 Perspective showing survey being made
using plumb-line from the W looking E
d: 23 Sept 1817
3 Perspective showing tenons & mortices from
SW looking NE
d: Sept 13 1817
4 Perspective from S looking NNW during
survey
5-6 Plans after Inigo Jones
7-8 Perspectives of druidical remains