Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of
John Thorpe & his period
1 Plan by Thorpe of a house for himself
2 Plan by Thorpe of a triangular house
3 Plan by Thorpe of a house inscribed in a
circle
4-5 LONGFORD CASTLE (Wilts):
Plan & elevation
6 OXFORD: Bodleian Library, Schools
Quadrangle
Elevation of entrance

Measured drawings by Soane himself & Royal
Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of Inigo
Jones
1 LONDON: Banqueting House, Whitehall
Measured drawing which gained Soane the
Silver Medal in 1772 at the Royal Academy
Elevation
[now framed and hanging in the Breakfast Room,
No.12 Lincoln's Inn Fields]
2 LONDON: Old Somerset House
Measured drawing, by Soane, of the garden
front (Inigo Jones) made in 1770
3-7 LONDON: Banqueting House, Whitehall
3 Perspective of the Banqueting House &
Gwydir House, made by Charles Tyrrell 1814
4 Elevation of the Banqueting House, Gwydir
House & Carrington House
5 Section, drawn by George Basevi, 1814
6 Interior perspective
7 Plan of the ceiling, drawn by Charles Tyrrell, 1814
8-16 LONDON: Whitehall Palace
8-10 Elevations of part of a rusticated wall
11 Section through the Persian Court
12 Detail of part of the Persian Court
13 Plan
14 Bird's-eye perspective
15-16 Elevations
(8-12 & 14 after Kent, Designs of Inigo Jones)

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of
Inigo Jones
1 LONDON: Old St Paul's Cathedral
Elevation
2 LONDON: York Water Gate
Elevation
3 Elevations of doors & windows by Jones, after Kent, Designs
of Inigo Jones
4 LONDON: House in Chandos Street, Covent
Garden
Elevation of a carved door in a house
5 LONDON: Covent Garden Piazza
Plan
6-7 LONDON: Church of St Paul, Covent Garden
6 Elevation of E front
7 Perspective
8 LONDON: Covent Garden Piazza
Perspective looking NE
9 LONDON: Lord Archer's House, N side,
Covent Garden, 43 King St
Perspective
10 LONDON: Church of St Paul, Covent Garden
Topographical drawing, made in 1820
Perspective of the W side, with churchyard in
foreground & houses to the left & right

Design by Soane & Royal Academy Lecture
Drawings
1 LONDON: Nos 13, 14 & 15 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Design for a group of three houses
Perspective
[Note: stored in Drawer 86 PMS]
2 OXFORD: Physic Garden gateway
Elevation
3-4 WILTON HOUSE (Wilts):
3 Front elevation
4 Interior perspective of the Dining Room
5 LONDON: Queen's House, Greenwich
Elevation of S front
6-7 COLESHILL HOUSE (Berks):
6 Plan & section of the staircase
7 Plans of the house
8 CASTLE ASHBY (Northants):
Elevation of S front
9 LONDON: Lindsey House, Nos 59-60
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Elevation
10 LONDON: Nos 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Elevation
11-12 LONDON: Lindsey House & Nos 57-58
Lincoln's Inn Fields
11 Elevation
12 Topographical view, showing the portico for
Nos 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields
13-19 LONDON: Ashburnham House, Westminster
13 Section through the Ante-Room & Drawing
Room
14 Perspective of the staircase
15 Perspective, drawn on a scroll of paper, of
the Drawing Room ceiling
16 Plan of a ceiling
17 Plan of staircase
18-19 Sections through staircase
20 LONDON: Harcourt House, Cavendish Square
Perspective of screen wall
21 LONDON: Ashburnham House, Westminster
Plan & elevation of the Temple in the garden

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings
1-2 LONDON: Nos 51-52 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Elevations of houses before & after the
addition of projecting bays, drawn on sheets
of paper, with trompe d'oeil effect
d: June 6th 1809 5 ¼ days
3-12 AMESBURY HOUSE (Wilts):
Survey drawings & finished drawings
prepared for the Royal Academy Lectures,
1817:
3 Plan of the 1st floor, previous to
enlargements
4 Measured plan of principal floor, from
measurements taken in June 1817
5 Plan of staircase
d: July 1817
6 Front elevation, drawn by Edward Foxhall, 1813
7 Front elevation, drawn by Henry Parke
d: July 30th 1817
8 Section through Loggia
s & d: G. B. July 22 18- [George Bailey]
9 Section through Principal Rooms, drawn by
H. Parke
d: July 30th 1817
10 Plan of gate pier
d: 12th Dec 1817
11 Elevation of gates & piers
s & d: July 31st 1817 H.P.
12 Elevation of gates & piers (measured)
13 LONDON: Gunnersbury House, Ealing
Elevation

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of Sir
Christopher Wren
1 LONDON: Church of St Stephen, Walbrook
Interior perspective
d: August 8 1811
2 LONDON: Church of St Mary-le-Bow,
Cheapside
Perspective
3 LONDON: Church of St Lawrence Jewry
Perspective of E end
4 Superimposed, comparative plans of St
Peter's, Rome & St Paul's Cathedral, London
5-6 LONDON: St Paul's Cathedral
5 Plan
6 Elevation made by Soane when a student
7 Superimposed, comparative elevations of St
Paul's Cathedral, London & St Peter's, Rome
8 Superimposed, comparative elevations of St
Paul's Cathedral, London & the Pantheon,
Paris
9-12 LONDON: St Paul's Cathedral
9 Section through the dome
10 Elevation of the W portico
11 Elevation of the N portico
12 Measured elevation of the W front inside the
portico
13 LONDON: Church of St Dunstan-in-the-East
Perspective

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of Sir
Christopher Wren
1-2 LONDON: College of Physicians, Warwick
Lane
1 Elevation
2 Perspective of the courtyard
3 LONDON: Greenwich Hospital
Elevation of the river front
d: July 29th 1814 (1819?)
4-5 LONDON: Orangery, Kensington Palace
4 Perspective, drawn by Henry Parke
5 Elevation, drawn by Edward Foxhall
s & d: April 11th 1815 EF/5 days
6 LONDON: Marlborough House, St James's
Elevation
7 LONDON: Monument
Elevation drawn by Henry Burges, 1817

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of
Nicholas Hawksmoor
1 CASTLE HOWARD (Yorks):
Elevation of the Mausoleum
d: Jany 1st 1812
2-3 LONDON: Church of St George, Bloomsbury
2 Plan of the portico
3 Perspective

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of Sir
John Vanbrugh
1 SEATON DELAVAL (Northumberland):
Elevation
2 LONDON: Queen's Theatre, Haymarket
Back elevation, drawn by Tomkins, 1801
3 KINGS WESTON (Somerset):
Elevation
4-5 LONDON: `Goose-Pie House', Whitehall
4 Perspective
5 Detail elevation
6 GRIMSTHORPE CASTLE (Lincs):
Elevation
7 CASTLE HOWARD (Yorks):
Elevation
8-10 BLENHEIM PALACE (Oxon):
8 Elevation
9 Elevation (details only partly filled in)
10 Silhouette elevation

Royal Academy Lecture Drawings of the work of
James Gibbs
1-8 LONDON: Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields
1 Front elevation
2 Side elevation of portico, drawn by George Basevi,
1813
3-4 Front elevation, without spire
5 Elevation of portico
d: Oct 8 1813
6 Elevation of portico
d: 21st Feb 1820
7 Interior sectional perspective of E end
8 Exterior perspective from SW
9-10 LONDON: Church of St Mary-le-Strand
9 Side elevation, drawn by Charles Tyrrell
d: Oct 22 1813
10 Exterior perspective from SE
11 OXFORD: Radcliffe Library
Elevation, drawn by Charles Tyrrell
d: Sept 17 1813