Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

LONDON : New State Paper Office, Duke St,
Westminster
Miscellaneous drawings of various designs, 1829-30,
& of the building as executed, 1831-32:
1-3 Designs
1 Recto: Perspective showing the front towards
Duke Street
d: May 18th 29
Verso: Plan
2-3 Perspective from park (2 copies)
4 Contrasted designs: design No 1 imitated from/
the Architecture of Vignola, Palladio,/Inigo
Jones, Sir C Wren & by a professional Architect;
design No 2 according/to the dilettanti
Architecture of the/ present day
Elevations
5 Contrasted designs: No 2, altered, by me, from
the first/design approved by the Keeper of the/
State papers, according to directions given me
& another design altered from my design/This
drawing was made from sketches/ sent to me for
that purpose
6-13 Design, c.1829
6 Floor plans & park elevation
7a Letter to Soane from Office of Works
specifying approved design (marked No 3) &
dated 26th June 1830
7-10 Basement, Ground Floor, First Floor, upper part
of Library and Attic
Plans
11 Park elevation
Insc: (in pencil): No fireplaces to be/between the
windows/where it can be avoided/Library to be
Fireproof
12-13 Perspective towards Duke St & showing the
Fronts to the Park
14 Interior perspective view of the Library
15-16 Approved designs, c.1830
15A Insc: Design for the New State Paper Office/
agreeably to the suggestions made to me/September
1829/No 3/John Soane/L. I. Fields
15 N elevation
16 Ground Floor plan
15 & 16 s & d: B. G. Stephenson/Office of Works/24th
June 1830
17-32 Design No 2,1829
17-20 Basement, ground, first & attic floors
21 Park elevation
22-23 Perspective towards Duke St & showing The
Fronts to the Park
24 Interior perspective showing Library
17-24 d: 20 June 1829
25-28 Basement, ground, first - attic floor, plans
29 Park elevation
30-31 Perspective from park - towards Duke Street
32 Interior perspective showing Library
33-35 Designs showing alternative treatment for
chimneys & Library, c.1830
33 Perspective from park, differing in chimneys
& rustication
d: 24th May 1830
34 Interior perspective showing Library,
differing in iron columns supporting balcony
35 Perspective showing corner of building,
chimneys & cornice decorated with busts
d: 3rd May 1830
36 Record drawing
View of the Entablature
d : October 1833
37-43 Recto: Designs, 1829-30
37 Park elevation
d: 1st May 1830
38 Side elevation
d: 3rd May 1830
39 Park elevation, design No 1
d: May 1829
40 Recto: Park elevation
d: 23rd April/1830
40 Verso: Part elevation & section
d: (faint, in pencil): 6th June 1829
41 Elevation -altered as suggested by Mr Bankes
d: 31 May 1830
42 Elevation
Insc: with the attic raised from 8 feet to 11 feet to
meet Mr Bankes suggestion
d: 2nd June 1830
43 Recto: Elevation showing alternative heights
to attic storey
d: Friday 21st May 1830
43 Verso: Unidentified design for a domed
skylight
Plan
44-45 Alternative designs showing chimneys
moved to the building's corners, 1830
Elevations & sections
44 d: 24th April 1830 & 3rd May 183-
45 d: 29 April & 3rd May
45 Verso: LONDON : Bank of England
Designs for perimeter wall
Outline plans & elevations
46-47 Alternative designs for chimneys moved to
the building's corners, c.1830
Elevations & section
46 Verso: Unidentified part-plan
48 Design including attic storey of increased
height, c.1830
Elevation
49-51 Designs for entrance, 1830
49-50 Front door elevations
d: 6th May 1830
49 Verso: Preliminary plan of the Library
d: 8 June 1829
51 Entrance front elevations
d: 23rd May 1830
52-55 Revised designs, including re-location of
chimney stacks & flues, 1831
Elevations
53-54 d: 9th May 1831
55 d: 28th May 1831
56-57 Recto: Miscellaneous designs
Elevations
57 Verso: LONDON : No 9 Upper Wimpole Street
Survey drawing (?)
Ground Floor & Basement plan
d: 5th April 1829
58-60 Designs showing structural features &
location of chimney flues
Part-elevation & sections
60 d: 3rd May 1830
61-99 Survey & working drawings
61 Sections of the different Strata of Earth on site
d: April 5th 1830
62-63 Plan showing the Old/& New Foundations
62 d: July 2nd 1830
63 d: July 5th 1830
64-71 Plans
d : May to September 1831
68 Verso: Unidentified design for a tempietto
feature
72 Recto: Section through relieving arch
72 Verso: Foundation plan
d: 4th September 1830
Plan showing layout of drains & section of
Large/Drain at B
Insc: the Drains as/finished by/Mr Stutely
d: Dec 8th 1830
74-81 Plans & details for Yorkshire landings,
Foundations & Chain Bars
d: August & September 1830
79 Verso: Unidentified design for a semi-circular
leaded window, 6 ft wide
82-84 Part-plans
82 d: 11th Aug 1832
83 Verso: Faint sketch of the Laocoon
85 Block plan & elevation for Iron Railings
85 Verso: Detail of iron-railing
86 Sections of the different Strata of Earth
d: April 3rd 1830
87-99 Details for drains & foundations
d: September 1830 to July 1831
95 Verso: Plan of an unidentified Basement
storey
d: June 29 1826

LONDON: New State Paper Office, Duke St,
Westminster
1 Working drawing
Plan of the Roof Showing the/Positions of the
Chimneys. GutterslSections of Walls.Cornice etc
d : Feby 12th 1833
2 Recto: Working drawing
Roof plan & sections
d: July 1831
2 Verso: Sketch design
Block plans & perspective
3-5 Design, Attic, first & ground floor plans
6-27 Working drawings, 1830-31
6-11 Plans
6,7,9,11 d: May 1831
8 & 10 d: April 1830
12 Plans & sections through staircase
d: 9th August 1831
13 Detail for cornice
d: 16 June 1831
14-15 Plans, elevations & details for doors &
windows
14 & 15 d: April 1831
16-17 Elevations & details for windows
16 & 17 Insc: Half one of the lower Windows & half
one of the Windows on the One Pair storey
d: May 1831
18 Elevation and section of centre window
S Front, Ground Floor
d: 7th June [183 1]
19-20 Details for cornices & architraves to windows
19 & 20 d: June 1831
21-22 Plan, elevation, section & details for Entrance
Door
21 & 22 d: May 1831
22 Verso: Part-elevation of an unidentified
building
23 FS detail for Truss for Windows
d: 25 May 1831
24 Elevation & section for windows to principal
floor
d: 25 May 1831
25-26 Elevation & sections through cornice
25 d: 15th June 1831
26 d: 24th April 1831
27 Recto: Elevation & section for Chimney shaft
d: 30th June 1831
Verso: LONDON: Church of St Peter,
Walworth
Working drawing (trimmed) for Staircasee &
Vestry Room Window
FS details
d: 8th August 1823
28 Recto Working drawing of chimneys on South Front
d: 24 Febr 1834
28 Verso: Design for a cupboard?
Elevation & section
29 Recto: Working drawing of chimneys on
North & West Fronts
Elevations
d: 3rd April 1834
29 Verso: LONDON: 30 Belgrave Place
Preliminary design for extension
Elevation
30-31 Working drawings of chimney stacks on Cross
Walks
Plans & elevations
31 d: July 1834
31 Verso: Working drawing for a Room in
Basement South West Angle
Plan & laid-out wall elevations, section &
elevation for cupboards
32 Working drawing for chimney stacks
Plan & elevations
33-34 Design for steps & railings, & alternative
designs for a street lamp to light the steps
Plan & elevations
35-36 Working drawings of steps to front entrance,
basement steps & railings
Plan, sections & elevation
36 d: 10 Jany 1833
37-52 Recto: Working drawings for interior, c.1833
37 Plan, laid-out wall elevation & bookcase
details for Mr Lemons Room/Ground Floor
38 Elevations & details for cross bars to doors for
the Presses
d: 10 Sept. 1833
39 Elevation, section & detail to Skeleton Doors for
Library
d: May 20th 1833
40-41 Diagrammatic elevations for bars to the
doors of the Presses
40 & 41 d: 10 Sept 1833
42-44 Floor plans showing fitted cupboards, an
elevation for the Standard Skirting, shelves,
doors etc & details for a cornice & door
mouldings
42-44 d: May 1833
45 Plan, elevation, sections & FS details for
Bookcases
d: 20th May 1833
46 Recto: Elevation & section for Kitchen Dressers
46 Verso: Section of a Press
47 Room plan & elevations & sections of
dressers within
d: April 13 1833
48 Plan & section showing library ceiling
49-51 Plans, laid-out wall elevations & details for
Commissioners Room, Library, North West Angle
& Middle Room (Library floor)
52 Recto: Elevations & details for doors
52 Verso: Design for railings surrounding
skylights
Plan & elevations
53-54 Designs for doors, 1832
Elevations & details
d: Novr 1832
55 Working drawing for Closets on Ground Floor
Plan, section & elevation
56-57 Working drawings of chimney stacks
Plans, elevations & section
56 d: July 1834
57 d: 27 June 1834
58-63 Working drawings
58 Part-plan
59-63 Plans, sections & detail for timber
construction of floors & roof
62 d: 20 April 1831
63 d: Jany 22d 1832

LONDON: Suffolk House, Duke Street
Survey drawings of the late Dowager Lady Suffolk's
House on the site of the New State Paper Office,
1829-30:
1 Section showing the level of the low Water Mark
d: May 24th 1830
2-3 Block plans
2 d: April 23d 1830
3 d: April 3d 1830
4 Recto: First floor plan
d: May 6th 1829
4 Verso: LONDON: Church of St Peter,
Walworth
Working drawing, 1823
Basement plan
d: Sept 3 1823
5 Ground floor plan of Suffolk House
d: May 5th 1829
5 Verso: Unidentified working drawing for
laying stone courses
Diagram
6-7 Survey drawings of Lady Suffolk's house
Recto: Basement & ground floor plan of
Suffolk House
6 & 7 Recto d: May 5th 1829
7 Verso: LONDON: Old State Paper Office, Great
George Street
Survey sketch
Plan

LONDON: Old State Paper Office, Great George
Street
1-5 Survey drawings, 1829
1 Plan of Attic Floor
2 Plan of Two Pair Floor
2 Verso: LONDON: Palace of Westminster, Law Courts
Plan of the Court of King's Bench
1 & 2 d: April 29th 1829
3 Plan of One Pair Floor
4 Ground floor plan, with notes
d: 25th April 1829
5 Basement plan

Edward Muhlenpfordt
MITLA (Mexico):
1-13 Measured drawings for publication of the
Mixtec ruins, c.1831-32
Plans, elevations, sections & details
Numbered: PI.1 to PI. 13 with Plate 5 missing
4 Insc: The Drawing No V, was/missing when they
were/purchased by Sir John Soane/GB
Filed with the drawings is a manuscript copy
of The/Palaces of the ancient Zapotecos/at Mitla/
and some other Antiquities found in/the State of
Oajaca/Described/by/Edward Mücklenpfordt/
Architect and Engineer/With plates/ 1832
(83. Set 1. 1 B-L verso)
Prov: Purchased by Soane for £12.12.0 on
23 Feb 1835 from HJ Martin (Ledger E p.218)

1 Lithograph of the Lord's Prayer designed to
illustrate different styles of calligraphy, by
J .C. Napper of Hanover
2 Explanatory text to accompany No 1,
published Edinburgh 1 December 1829 & W.
Ballantine Lithog.

Coloured & partly coloured engravings of wall
paintings in the Villa Negroni, Rome, engraved by Angelo
Campanella (1746-1811) & published by Camillo
Buti
1-2 Plate I: after Anton Rafael Mengs (1728-
1779) & published 1778
3-4 Plate III: after Anton Rafael Mengs (1728-
1779) & published 1778
5-6 Plate IV: after Anton von Maron (1733-
1808) & published 1779
7-8 Plate VIII: after Anton von Maron (1733-
1808) & published 1786

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(E side, Pompeian Model Stand)

RA lecture drawings to illustrate Primitive huts &
Groves of trees:
1 Frontal perspective of a Primitive hut to
elucidate the principles of construction
2 Frontal perspective of a Primitive hut to
elucidate the principles of construction
3-10 Views of a Grove or Avenue of trees - to
illustrate the probable origin of Gothic
architecture
11 View of the Grove at Cheltenham
12 Drawing of a tree, with ivy twisted round it
13 Drawing of a tree, with a serpent twisted
round it