Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
LONDON: Melbourne House, Piccadilly
Designs for the 1st Lord Melbourne:
1 Chambers's copy of Robert Adam's design for Lord
Holland
Plan
2-3 Ground floor plan
4 Basement plan
5 Principal floor plan
6-7 Variants of principal floor plan
8-9 Upper floor plans
10-12 Plan, section & elevation of staircase

Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
1 Design for a frontispiece insc Designs/for/
Country Houses/etc/by Sir W. Chambers & others
2 CULZEAN CASTLE (Ayrshire):
Unexecuted design for a pavilion, before
1759
Plans
3 Plan of a triangular pavilion
4 Principal floor plan of a villa
5 LONDON: Knightsbridge
Design for a new house for John Calcraft
Ground floor plan
6 Design for a villa, hexagonal in plan
Plan
7-8 Design for a villa, 79 ft x 62 ft 9 in.
Plans
9 Design for a villa
Plan
10-11 LONDON: Parksted (now Manresa House),
Roehampton
Designs for the 2nd Earl of Bessborough
10 Elevation of portico front
11 Ground & Principal floor plans
Insc: Verso: Bessborough/W Chambers/Wm
Wilton
12-13 LONDON: Kew House, Kew Gardens
Designs
Plans of the ground floor & Principal floor
14-18 HEDSOR LODGE (Bucks):
Designs for a new house for the 2nd Baron
Boston
Plans
19 Design for a large house with quadrant wings (of c. 1740s or 50s)
20 Design for a house for a Lord
21 Design for a large house
22 LONDON: Wick House, Richmond
Design for a new house for Sir Joshua
Reynolds, 1771
Possibly the ground floor plan before the
addition of bay
23 MARINO HOUSE (Dublin):
Unexecuted design for a House for
the 1st Earl of Charlemont, 1768
Plan of project A
24-25 DUDDINGSTONE (E Lothian):
Design for a new house for the 8th Earl of
Abercorn
Plans showing staircase divided from hall by
colonnade
26 LONDON: Whitton Place, Whitton
Unexecuted design for a new house for Sir
William Chambers possibly at Whitton Place:
Plans of the ground floor & Chamber floor
Insc: Plans of a Villa for W C
27 DUNTISH COURT (Dorset):
Design for a new house for Walter Fitz-Foy,
1760:
Basement plan
28 Design for a casino
Plan
29 LONDON: Richmond Gardens
Design for a pavilion for the reception of
Christian VII of Denmark on 24 September
1769
Plan
30 Design for a house
Plan
31-34 LONDON: York House, Pall Mall
Unexecuted designs for a new house for the
Duke of York, 1759
Plans
35 Unidentified 18th C architect
LUTON HOO (Beds):
Copy of Robert Adam's plan, probably made from
Adam's Works in Architecture, vol I
36 ? Robert Mylne (1733-1811)
Plan of a house with two circular,
asymmetrically placed rooms

Miscellaneous drawings of Old Houses in the
country From the Collection of Sir William
Chambers:
1 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
Design for a house
Front elevation
2 Thomas Ripley (c. 1683-1758)
Engraving of a plan of a house,
drawn by I. Ware
3 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a house
Plans
Insc: Verso: A/Design for the /Duke of
Devonshires
4-15 Richard Biggs ( -1776)
4 Survey or design for a house of seven bays
Plan & elevation
5 LONDON: Pomfret House, No 18 Arlington
Street
Design for the courtyard front
Section, with scale
Insc: Verso: Sketch of a/Gothic Building/
February 1757
6-7 BRAY (Berks): House
Designs for alterations for Jno Bidleson Esq.
6 Plan & elevation of crenellations
s & d: Jno Bidleson Esq/April 17^th 1762/R B
7 Front elevation
8-9 LONDON: Pomfret House. No 18 Arlington
Street
8 Copy of a design for the park front
Plan & elevation
9 Copy of a design, slightly different
Plan & elevation
10-13 BRAY (Berks): House
10 Plan of the foundations of the Bow front
11-12 Ground floor plans
12 Insc: Verso: Bray Papers/These were the Designs
of the Workmen before I was concerned. R B
13 Plans & elevations
14 Survey or design for a house (same as No 4 above)
Plan & elevation
15 HARE HATCH, nr Wargrave (Berks): House
Design for additions for Mrs Pritchard,
1757:
Plans & elevation
Insc: Verso: Mrs Pritchard at/Hare hatch/1757/
Plan & Elevation/R B
16 Unidentified 18th C architect
Basement plan of a house
17-18 Unidentified 18th C architect
Designs for a house, 90 x 66 feet, early
1750s
Plans
19 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
LONDON: Cotton Garden, Westminster
Design for temporary kitchens for the
Coronation of George III, 1762
Plan
20 Sir William Chambers (?) (1723-1796)
BRASTED PLACE (Kent):
Design for a farmyard for Dr John Turton
Plan
21-25 Richard Biggs ( -1776)
21 WINDSOR (Berks): Estate in Priest Street
Sheet of calculations of the areas & land tax
of ground contained in the two leases of
Windsor & Eton Colleges
Insc: Verso: True Copy presented/& shewn to the
Provost of Eton this 5^th day Dec^br 1758/ And sent
the same/Night by the Post to/The Hon^ble Sir Pobt
Rich/Bart, Field Marshal in Grosvenor Squar/
London/Calculations of the Estate/in Priest Street/
New Windsor
22 LONDON: Ruislip, Farm
Survey plan of farm
Insc: Recto: Plan taken/12^th October 1758/Rd
Biggs
Verso: Ruislip Farme/House & Barns etc/Middx/
Octo 12^th 1758
23 FROGMORE HOUSE (Berks)
Design for stables (see Nos 25 &
36)
Plan & elevation
24 Design for a doorway
Plan & elevation
25 FROGMORE HOUSE (Berks)
Design for the offices (see Nos 23
& 36)
Plan & elevation
26 Unidentified 18th C architect
Plan of part of a House
27 Unidentified 18th Carchitect
Design for a house, with service wings
Plans
Insc: Verso: S C T
28 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a house with service wings
Plan
29 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a town house
Plans & elevations
30 Unidentified 18^th C architect
Design for a house with service wings
Plan & elevation
31 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a house with service wings
& forecourt
Plan & elevation
Insc: Road to Wigmore or Bromley
32 Drawings pasted together on one sheet:
a John James (c. 1672-1746) attributed to
Designs for two door surrounds & two
window surrounds
Elevations
Attribution by Sally Jeffery, 1986
b-d Unidentified 18th C architect (possibly John
James)
b Elevation of a seven bay, three storey house
c Part elevation of a five bay house
d Plan & elevation of a five bay, three storey house
33 Drawings pasted together on one sheet:
a John James (c. 1672-1746)
LONDON: House (later Orleans House) at
Twickenham
Preliminary design for the Hon James
Johnston, c. 1705-09
Plans & front elevation
Attribution by Sally Jeffery, 1986
b-c Unidentified 18th C architect (possibly
John James)
b Part elevation of a grand country house, with
portico,
c Fireplace detail
d Profile details
34 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a large house or government
offices on the Thames, with internal
courtyard
Plans
Insc: Thames/Mr York
35 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for offices, or school, with chapel
Plan & elevation
36 Richard Biggs ( -1776)
FROGMORE HOUSE (Berks)
Design for offices & stablecourt
(See also Nos. 23 & 25)
Plan
37 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
ADDERBURY (Oxon):
Survey plans of house & offices, c. 1768
Incorrectly numbered 36 on microfilm

Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
1 LONDON: Richmond House, Whitehall
Design for the ceiling in the Gallery, 1760
Plan
s & d: W. Chambers Invt et divt/Anno 1760
2 LONDON: Marlborough House
Design for mahogany doors
Elevation & detail
3 Design for a bookcase
Elevations
4 Drawing of a capital of Solomon's Temple
5 Sketch design of a domed public building,
with portico
6-7 Details of guilloche ornament
8 BARTON HALL (Suffolk):
Design for a doorcase in the Library, for Sir
Charles Bunbury, 1767
Profile detail of a doorcase
Verso: LONDON: Marlborough House
Design for mahogany doors (See also No 2)
Elevation & detail
9-10 LONDON: No. 13 Berners Street
Designs for decorative details for the
staircase for Chambers's own house, 1764-65
Details
9 Insc: String for My Stair half size
10 String for a stair executed at Mr Chambers's
Berners Street half size
11-14 Designs for cornices & entablatures
Details
12 LONDON: Somerset House
Designs for cornices & entablatures
Details
15 MILTON ABBEY (Dorset):
Study for a Gothic door & details of Gothic
profiles
Sketch elevation & detail
Verso: profile outlines
16 Design for a side table
Elevation
(Table now in the pos. of the National Trust, Wimpole Hall (Cambs), on loan to Spencer House)
17-18 BLENHEIM PALACE (Oxon):
17 Design for a side-table with Vitruvian
borders
Elevation
Insc: with Alken's estimate
d: Apr 12 1768
18 Design for a therm carved by Alken for the
Temple of Diana
Elevation & profile details
Verso: Insc: To Mr Alken
19 THE HOO (Herts):
Design for an overmantel for Thomas
Brand, c. 1762:
Elevation
Insc: NB The Woodwork of this top 2:10 by
Thacker/& the carving very well done 6:2/8:12s/
by Alken/Done for Thos. Brand Esqr/at the Hoo
20 LONDON: Gower, later Carrington House,
Whitehall
Design for the Drawing Room (later Ball
Room) for the Earl of Gower:
Elevation of a wall, with door &
chimneypiece
Insc: Verso: Earl Gower/Walsh a large Glass/See
it
21 ? John Yenn
Design for a silver ewer
Elevation
22 Sketch design for an ornamental side table
Plan, elevation & detail
23 LONDON: Buckingham Palace
Design for the State Coach, 1760-62
Side elevation
Insc: Lord Clare's Carriage

Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
1 Cut-out design for a frontispiece
Insc: Designs for/Gateways, Temples , Garden-Buildings
etc by/Sir W. Chambers
2 Design for a gateway
Elevation
3 Design for a gateway
Plan
4 Design for a Venetian window
Elevation
5 Design for a doorway
Elevation
6 LONDON: Kew Gardens
Preliminary design for the Mausoleum to
Pope & Gay & Swift
Elevation
See also 69.1.6
7-8 LONDON: Kew Gardens
Designs for the Temple of Peace
Elevations
9 LONDON: Kew Gardens
Copy of a design for the Temple of Arethusa
Elevation
s: Rich^d Ripley
10 Design for a garden building in the style of Baldasare Peruzzi
Elevation
(cf. drawing in the V&A)
11 LONDON: Wanstead
Unexecuted design for a Doric temple for
Earl Tylney, c. 1754-55
Elevation
Insc: Verso: There should have been a Tablet with
an/Inscription to Valour beauty & science
12 Design for a garden pavilion
Elevation
13-14 MARINO HOUSE (Dublin):
Designs for a gateway with low walls &
railings connecting to rusticated piers
surmounted by dogs
Elevations
cf. Drawing at V & A
15-16 WHITTON PLACE (Middlesex):
15 Design for a new house
Elevation
16 Design for new offices or stables
Elevation
17-18 LONDON: Kew Gardens
Designs for the Temple of Augustus
Plan & elevation
19 LONDON: Hanover Square Rooms 1773/74
Design for an assembly room
Section
[see also 43/2/15 & 16 for plans]
20-21 LONDON: Melbourne House, Piccadilly
Alternative designs for the S front:
Elevations
22 LONDON: Buckingham Palace
Design for King George III's Astronomical
Clock, 1768
Elevation of one face

Designs for bridges from the Collection of Sir
William Chambers
1 Unidentified 18th C architect
Alternative designs for a bridge
Plans & elevations
2-3 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
Alternative designs for bridges
Elevations
2 Blagdon Bridge
4 Sir William Chambers, Office of
WILTON HOUSE (Wilts):
Measured drawing of the Palladian Bridge
Elevation
5 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
BLENHEIM PALACE (Oxon): Bladon Bridge
Design
Plan & elevation

Miscellaneous drawings from the Collection of Sir
William Chambers:
1-3 Unidentified 18th C artists
1 Design for a coat of arms (Prince of Wales
feathers enclosed by a garter with F. P.)
2 Drawing of a garter shield
3 Design for a canopy over a throne or
catafalque
4 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
Design for a garden pavilion
Elevation
5-7 Sir William Chambers, Office of
Sketch designs for public buildings
8 Nicholas Hawksmoor (c.1661-1736)
LONDON: St Alphege, Greenwich
Preliminary design for the E front, 1712
Elevation
9 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a garden building
Plan & elevation
10 Unidentified 18th C architect
Part-plan of a large building, possibly a copy
after Le Geay
cf. Sans Souci, Germany
11 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a church with steeple & portico
Elevation
12 ? Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
Design for an oval church
Elevation
Verso: Sketch plans
13 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
LONDON: Church of St Marylebone
Unexecuted design, Scheme B
Plan
14-16 George Dance the Elder (1695-1768)
LONDON: Church of St Martin Outwich, City
Designs for an octagonal church, never built,
1765
Elevation, section & plan
Note: For a full catalogue entry see : Jill Lever 
Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825)
and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768),
London 2003
17 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
Design for a large country house or palace,
with portico
Elevation
18 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
Design for a cupola on a roof
Elevation

Folder insc Sundry Drawings of Internal Finishings, etc
etc from the Collection of Sir William Chambers
1-6 Unidentified 18th C architects
1 Copy of a page of a manual - possibly for
military buildings, captioned in Swedish
Plan & perspective of a hut & details of floor
joists & staircase
2 Details of a baluster
3-5 Designs for ceilings
Plans
6 Elevation of one side of a courtyard with an
arcade on the ground floor
7-10 Unidentified 18th C architect
Designs for rooms in a house for Sir Henry
Liddell, c. 1730s
Laid-out wall elevations
7 Insc: Verso: S^r HenylLiddell's/Attick Floor
11 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
WOBURN ABBEY (Beds):
Design for the interior of a room
Wall elevation
12 Sir William Chambers attributed to
Design for a room interior
Elevation showing door & wall with paintings
marked in
13 Nicholas Hawksmoor/Office of Works
State room for records in Tower
Laid-out wall elevations
14-16 Unidentified 18th C architects
14 Design for a doorcase
Elevation
15 Design for a room
Elevations
16 Design for an Infirmary
Part-elevation of N front showing doorcase &
window
Insc: Doorcase & Window/North front of Infir/
mery
17-18 Sir William Chambers (1723-1796)
WOBURN ABBEY (Beds):
17 Design for a room interior (See also No. 11)
Wall elevation
18 Design for the Tower Room
Elevation showing chimney side of the room
Insc: Chimney Side/of the tower room/on the
principal floor at Wooburn/& the best of the two
therm chimneys wch came from Stratton Park
19 Messrs Goor & Mellish (fl. 1758)
Design for a paving
Plan
Insc: Paving To Passige [sic]
s & d: Massures Goor & Mellish Bishop Geat
Street [sic] Jany 31^st 1758
20 Sir William Chambers, Office
Design for a staircase
Wall elevations

George Basevi (1794-1845)
Topographical drawings made in Italy, 1816-19
(25)
Prov: Presented to the Museum by Basevi's
grandson in 1923