Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

Simon Gribelin
Volumes (2) entitled Traite D'Architecture/
devisé en trois Parties, 1699
MS, with drawings
Bound in leather (330 x 240)

Unidentified French 16th C architect
Design, showing a part-elevation of the
exterior of a building (sepia and red pen),
pasted into Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Le
Second Volume des plus excellents Bastiments de
France, 1579

Unidentified French 16th C architect
Designs (3), plans, pasted into Livre
D'Architecture de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau,
1582

Unidentifed French 18th C artist
Volume entitled (on p.1) Recueil/de pensees,
Plainsanteries/Bons-mots,/Vers, Epigrammes,/
Scenes,/Chansons, Cannevas et faceties/Presque
tout est demoy, containing miscellaneous notes
and extracts, dated 1758-1761
At the back, following the English title,
Miscellaneous Sketches, probably added at a
later date, several contemporary vignettes,
caricatures and architectural sketches on
pages numbered 1-45 : No 33 insc: Decoration
& la Prison/de Piranese dans la Parodie aux
Italiens; No 37 insc: Eglise des Cermes de
Charenton
Bound in leather, decorative spine insc:
Bonmots and Drawings (195 x 150)

Unidentifed French 18th C artist
Sketchbook of 159 pp (including end papers)
containing architectural and decorative
drawings made in France and Italy
f. 44 François Joseph Belanger (1744-1818)
Attributed to
Design for a jewel-cabinet, probably for the
marriage of Marie Antoinette, the future
Queen of France, c.1769
Bound in green leather (2045 x 165)

Robert Adam (1728-1792), Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803)
and three other artists
Volume of 160 Topographical sketches and
drawings, insc on title page: Sketches and
drawings of Places and Views in Italy taken on the
Spott/by different hands/First series. Number
1-162 (Nos 99 and 156 wanting), c.1755
1-40 Drawings of Neapolitan subjects,
from dismembered sketchbooks of Adam
and Clérisseau, April 1755
36 Details of the Amphitheatre at Capua, in
Clérisseau's hand d: 20th April, 1755
Many of them are identified in pencil (in
Clérisseau's hand) and are of the antiquities
at Baia, Pozzuoli and Capua
41-162 Drawings predominantly of the
antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
44-46 Designs for furniture, or possibly
drawings of furniture seen at Herculaneum,
April, 1755
151 Insc: in Adam's hand : Sketch from my
Window in Palazzo Guernieri (Rome)
162 Insc: in Adam's hand, Sketch of the Point
and part of the Town of Portofino from the
Bay/Taken on the spot, 18th January 1755
Marbled boards, leather spine insc: Drawings/
Views of Ruins etc/in Italy By Various Artists/
1755 (625 x 510)
Prov: Purchased by Soane at the Adam Sale,
1818, Lot 53
Note: A fully illustrated catalogue of the early drawings of Robert and
James Adam and their circle 1742-63 by Professor Alan Tait
is available on the Museum's website, soane.org.uk/drawings

John Bedford (fl.1793)
Volume of designs for houses, garden
buildings, a gaol and hospital at Marylebone
(49 drawings)
Insc (on cover and spine): Designs/by/J.
Bedford abt 1793
Bound in stiff grey card (480 x 345)
1-33,36-38 Plans and elevations for unidentified
houses, gatehouses, Garden house, workers'
accommodation plus a County Gaol
34-35 LONDON: Bedford House
39-40 LONDON: Bedford House, Bedford Corner, Bedford Park
Design as executed
Plan & elevation
39-40 LONDON: Marylebone Hospital
Design
Plan, elevation and section
41-46 Plans and elevations for unidentified
houses and garden buildings, including
Pavillion and an orangery
47-49 LONDON: Marylebone Hospital
Alternative design
Plans and elevation

Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769) & others
Volume of topographical drawings and
designs (66 drawings)
Insc (on spine): Miscellaneous/Drawings/of/
Architectural Designs/No 1 (272 pages; 66
drawings, numbered 1-25, then 1-41)
Bound in leather (495 x 320)
1-35: = Nos 1-25
1-3 Pencil sketches of 3 Antique busts
4 Sketch in Indian ink of some Egyptian
ruins
5-6 Thomas Malton (1726-1801)
5 Aquatint `trade card’ showing boy being
instructed in drawing [not microfilmed]
Insc: Drawing/taught/by T. Malton/No 61
Conduit Street/An Evening School
6 LONDON: Church of St Leonard,
Shoreditch
Topographical view of W end [not
microfilmed]
7 Robert Baldwin (fl.1760-70)
LONDON: Church of St Stephen Walbrook
Trompe d'oeil section, pinned to a wooden
panel, with fly
With note insc: R. Baldwin's respects to Mr
Soan./hope his endeavours in the/Annex'd will
meet his Approbation
8 Thomas Sandby (1721-1798)
Design for a Sessions House
Plan & elevation, set within a painted frame
9 Unidentified 18th C architect
LONDON: Carlton House, Pall Mall
Engraving of ground floor plan, with key to
rooms
10 Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843)
PARIS:
Topographical sketch of Prince Eugene's
Dressing Room, 1814
Plan & section
With letter from Gandy dated Paris 1814,
describing the room
11 LONDON: Mr Goldsmith's house,
Roehampton
Design for finishing a room for Mr Spiller,
1797
Perspective
12-17 George Allen Underwood (c.1793-
1829)
Topographical drawings
12 BORDEAUX (France) : Theatre
View of exterior
13-14 LONDON : Theatre Royal, Covent
Garden
Views of exterior from NE & NW
15 LONDON: Royal College of Surgeons
View
16 LONDON: Gunnersbury House
Elevation
17 ATHENS : Parthenon
View (restored from Stuart)
18-25 Unidentified French 18th C
architect
Design for the enlargement of a house
Basement and ground floor plan, alternative
1st floor plans, elevations
36-73: = Nos 1-41
1-41 Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769)
& Others
1-3 Matthew Brettingham the Younger
(1725-1803)
Sketch elevations and section of a
public building
4-11 Matthew Brettingham
4 Elevation of a house with wings (See No 8)
5 Plan and 2 elevations of a house
6 Plan and elevation of a house
7 Plans and elevation of a house (See No 9)
8 Elevation of a house (See No 4)
9 Plan and elevation of a house (See No 7)
10 Plan and elevation of a temple
11 Plan of a house
12 Matthew Brettingham the Younger
LONDON: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Sketch design for a church
13-14 Matthew Brettingham
13 Plan and elevation of a house
14 Plan and elevation of a house
15-16 James Gibbs (1682-1754)
15 Design for a house in Yorkshire
Plan & elevation, engraved in Gibbs, A Book
of Architecture, 1728, pl. 63
16 LONDON: Thanet House, Great Russell St
Design for a house for Thomas Coke, 1st
Earl of Leicester, c.1719
Plan
17-18 Matthew Brettingham
17 Plan and elevation of a house
18 Plan and elevation of a counting house
19 Unidentified 18th C architect
LONDON: Gunnersbury House
Elevation
20 Unidentified 18th C architect
LONDON: New Gallery, Somerset House
Copy of elevation from Vitruvius Britannicus
21 Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
Attributed to
LONDON: The Nunnery, Greenwich
Preliminary design
Elevation
22 Isaac Ware ( -1766 )
Plan and elevation of a Temple, engraved in
Isaac Ware, A Complete Body of Architecture,
1756, pl. 104
23 Unidentified 18th C architect
Copy of the Rotonda (Pantheon, Rome)
from Palladio's Quattro Libri, 1570
24 Matthew Brettingham the Younger
Interior sketch elevation of a room
25 Matthew Brettingham
Interior elevations of rooms
26 Unidentified 18th C architect
Design for a chimney piece
27 Isaac Ware ( -1766 )
Design for chimney pieces, engraved in Isaac
Ware, A Complete Body of Architecture, 1756,
pls 86 & 90
28 Unidentified 18th C architect
3 designs for door cases
29 Unidentified French architect
Measured sketch of chemin de la 3e piece a
L'hotel/de chatillon
Elevation
30 Matthew Brettingham the Younger
Design, probably for a street fountain or
bookcase
Elevation
s & d: M. Brettingham. Roma 1752
31 Unidentified 18th C architect
Profiles, in elevation & perspective, of Imposts
of Arches of the 5 orders
32 Matthew Brettingham the Younger
Sketch elevation of a public building
33 Sir John Vanbrugh Attributed to
Elevation of an Entrance Gateway or
fountain
34-39 Matthew Brettingham
Plan of a House
35 Sketch plan of a House
36-38 Plan & two elevations of a Hall or
Temple
39 Plan & two elevations of a church
40 Nicholas Hawksmoor (c.1661-1736)
LONDON: Church of St Alphege, Greenwich
Studies
W Elevation
41 Detail of a cornice

John Carr (1723-1807)
Design sketches included in Carr's copy
(dated 1758) of Robert Morris's Select
Architecture, 1755:
1 (On end paper inside front cover): Sketch
elevation of an archway
2 (Pl.1, verso): Plan and part-elevation of a
house
3 (Pl.2, verso): ASTON (Yorks): Rectory
Plan of Revd Mr Masons House at Aston,
c. 1770
4 (Pl. 3, verso): SWARLAND HALL, nr Fenton
(Northumberland):
Plan, 1765
Insc: Designed for Mr Grieve Northumberland
ASTON (Yorks): Aston Hall
Plan, 1771-2
Insc: Aston House
5 (Pl. 4, verso): CHESTERS (Northumberland):
Elevation and plan, 1771
Insc: Designed for — Errington Esq.
6 (Pl. 5, verso): Elevation of lodge gates
Insc: M. Shores/J. Carr
7 (End paper, recto): KNOX'S HILL
(Armagh): Obelisk
Elevation of an obelisk, c. 1782-3
Insc: designed for J.C. and built by the Ld primate
of all Ireland 1782
8 (End paper, verso): Elevations of lodge
gates