Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

1-2 Giovanni Battista, Conte de Puppi
Design for complex of public baths for
Queen Caroline, 1820s
Plan, elevation & section
d: Londra le 26 November 182—
Previously Framed Drawings P389 & P390
3 Copy by a Soane pupil of one of Piranesi's Carceri
engravings
4 HAMELS PARK (Herts): Dairy
Design for a dairy for the Hon Philip Yorke,
later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, c. 1783
Elevation
Drawing varnished & much damaged
5-7 LONDON: Church of St John, Bethnal Green
5 Front elevation
d: 27 May 1825/May 28^th 1825
6 Section & plan of tower
d: May 1825
Verso: Elevation of door & detail of
mouldings
7 Plan
Verso: Plans, sections & details

1-23 Tracings of illustrations to a variety of
publications, including drawings of ancient
monuments, imaginative reconstructions &
studies of modern buildings.

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1 Engraving after Tom Smith of a view of
Gordal, at Malham in Craven, Yorkshire,
published 1751
2-4 Intaglio prints of rural scenes by I. D. Herz
5 Intaglio print of a landscape with bridge, Tiré
du Cabinet de Monsieur Ferrand Fermier General
6 Engraving of (?) bandits ambushing
travellers
7-9 Intaglio prints after Nicolaas Berchem
7 La Marche d'Animaux
8 Le Pont de Bois
9 Le Passage du Bat
10-11 Engravings after paintings by Philip
Wouwerman, published 1734
10 La Petite Chasse au Cerf
11 La Cascade
12-13 Engravings after Vernet
12 Les Différents Travaux d'un Port de Mer
13 Le Pélenviage
14 Engraving after Claude Le Lorrain, The
Molten Calf published by John Boydell 1781

1-7 Unidentified 18th C artists
1-3 Rough sketches of horses & carriages
4-7 Sketches of Fabulous Beasts
4 Insc: The Animaspian
5 Insc: The Leggoroski found at the greatest depth of
the Red Sea
6 Insc: This non descript was thrown out of
Vesuvius in the eruption of 1202
7 Insc: The Gambuz, from the deserts of
Rumpabumpassia
8 Thomas Hardwick (1752-1829)
Study of the Spongia Patera/from Singapore,
1821. A copy by Hardwick of a drawing
made 2 years earlier for the Linnean Society
9-11 Unidentified 18th C artists
9 Sketch of a fleet under sail
10 Sketch of a fleet at anchor
s: Rv. R. R. J. (?)
11 Sketch of ‘men-o'-war’ after a Battle
12 J. J. Burn
View across the Channel c. 1828
Insc (Verso): A Sketch by J. J. Burn taken in
France/near Calais looking towards Dover and/
presented by him to his Friend John Soane Esq 11
June 1828
13 A. Tihriman
Study of a pair of birds, 1752
14 Franz Edmund Weirotter (1730-1771)
Sketch of a mountain waterfall, 1769
Insc: Dessiné dans les Montgnes de Styrie
15-16 Unidentified early 19th C artists
15 Composition upon a biblical theme
s &d: RD 1816
16 Sketch of a cormorant

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1-2 Engravings of the plan of St Paul's
Cathedral, London
1 Ecclesiae Paulinae Ichnographia cum Cryptio et
Vestigio Tholi/Ex Autographo Architecti
2 The Foundation or Ground-plan of St Pauls
Church, & Sould by Tho: Bowles

(See also Volumes 27 & 28)
A collection of ‘Major's Paestum proof etchings &
additional engravings & 12 drawings’ bought by
Soane in July 1825 for £ 5-17-6.
1-2 Engravings from Dumont's Suitte, Paris, 1764
1 Engraving of the Basilica at Paestum, Italy
2 Engraving of the Temple of Ceres, Paestum, Italy
3-11 PAESTUM (Italy): Temples of Neptune & Ceres,
general views
Engravings by Filippo Morghen (See vol. 28
for details), two copies each of Plates 1,5,6,
one each of 2,3,4
12-21 Proof engravings of Thomas Major, The
Ruins of Paestum otherwise Posidonia in Magna
Graecia, London 1768
12 PAESTUM (Italy): General View
Perspective of the three temples, proof
engraving for Tab. 11, closely related to
Morghen 3, & vol 27, No. 2)
13 PAESTUM (Italy): Temple of Neptune
Perspective, Tab. V, proof engraving for Tab.
VII (compare vol 27, No.8)
14 PAESTUM (Italy): Temple of Ceres
Perspective, Tab. XI, proof engraving for
Tab. XIIII (compare vol 27, No. 18)
15-17 PAESTUM (Italy): Temple of Neptune
15-16 Plan, two copies of early proof engraving for
Tab. VI
16 Dimensions added in red & brown ink & Tab.
IIII
Insc: The Red from Genl. Grays drawing.
Columns 7 palms 8 in. diameter Jolli
17 Plan, later proof than 15-16, very close to
Tab. VI but dimensions still missing
18 PAESTUM (Italy): Temple of Ceres
Working proof of Major's Tab. XIII,
showing plan before any attempt at
restoration
19 Another impression of preceding showing
restored parts in pen & wash & alternative
sets of measurements in brown & blue ink.
20-21 PAESTUM (Italy): Basilica
20 Working proof of Major's Tab. XVIII,
showing plan before restoration
21 Another impression of preceding showing
restored parts in pencil & measurements in
red ink
22-24 Unsigned, unpublished plates of the 3
temples, probably trial plates for Major's
Paestum based on similar representation of
architecture of the temples in Dumont
25-33 Unidentified 18th C artist
Original drawings:
25-28 AGRIGENTO (Sicily):Temple of Concord, also
called Tempio di S. Gregorio
25-26 Plans
27-28 Perspectives
29-30 AGRIGENTO (Sicily): Temple of Juno, also
called Tempio di S. Venora
Perspectives
31-33 AGRIGENTO (Sicily): Classical sarcophagus
preserved in the Cathedral
Elevations of three sides
34 Louis François Sébastien Fauvel (1753-1838)
Copy from the original drawing in the Possession
of Mr Walker. Figure of Bronze and Vase of Clay
found at Troy in a Barrow supposed to be that of
Achilles, by Mr Choiseul Gauffier drawn by Mr
Faveuel

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LONDON: No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Watercolour sketches by C.J. Richardson made in
preparation for the 1835 Description of the Residence
1 View in the Colonnade looking W towards
the Dome area
Preparatory watercolour for PI. XXVI of the
1835 Description
Insc: To face page 39/Plate 26 (in Soane's
hand)
w/m: WW with Fleur de lys
2 View in the Entrance Hall Looking towards
the Staircase
Preparatory watercolour for Pl. III of the
1835 Description
Insc: Plate 3 (in Soane's hand)
3 View of the Model Room on the second floor
of No. 13 looking SE
Preparatory watercolour for Pl. XXXVIII of
the 1835 Description
Insc: Plate 39 & 38 (in Soane's hand)
w /m : Weatherley 1831
Beneath this drawing is a sheet Insc: Senate
House/Rome/1779/Plate 35 over which (this
drawing has been stuck down
4 View in the North Drawing Room
Preparatory watercolour for PI. XXXIV of
the 1835 Description, although the published
engraving differs slightly from it. Various
pencil annotations relate to these changes.
Insc: Plate 34
w/m: Wise & Co 1830
5 View in the Monk's Yard
Preparatory watercolour for Pl. XVIII of the
1835 Description
Insc: View in the Monk's Cemetery (in Soane's
hand)
w/m: W. Weatherley 1831
6 View in the Basement Ante-Room looking
S W
Preparatory watercolour for PI. XIX of the
1835 Description
Insc: Plate 19 (in Soane's hand)
w/m: Fleur de lys, partially cropped so
unidentifiable
Richardson prepared three watercolours and
three plates from them for Pl. XIX before
one was selected for the 1835 Description. The
chosen engraving was based on this
watercolour but with some re-drawing
7 View of the side of the Dome area looking S
Preparatory watercolour for Pl. XXVII of
the 1835 Description.
Insc: To face p. 41/Plate 27 (in Soane's hand)
w/m: WW with Fleur de lys
8 View of the Dome area looking W, from the
Basement
Preparatory watercolour for pl. XXVIII of
the 1835 Description, but not used, a view
looking E being substituted
Insc in ink: not to be used/Plate 28 & in pencil,
This view is to be taken opposite to John's Bust
instead of behind it
w/m: WW with Fleur de lys
9 View of the Dome area looking E
Preparatory watercolour for PI. XXVIII of
the 1835 Description, drawn after No. 8
Insc: To face p.49/Plate 28 p 42, (in Soane's
hand)
w/m: W & Co with Fleur de lys
10 Two elevations of the Breakfast Room
Pen, pencil wash
A re-drawing of Pl. III of Britton's Union,
1827, in preparation for PI. XXX of the 1835
Description

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1-10 B&M Westwood, Piet & Poole Architects
LONDON: 15 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Plans
d: October 1973