Library Collections
The Sketchbooks Catalogue
Click here for Sketchbooks Catalogue on Soane.org.uk
The Collections Books
A new online catalogue of Soane’s library of some 7,000 volumes is in progress. The catalogue entries are being published incrementally as they are edited. For queries about the Library please contact the Librarian, Stephie Coane (this email requires javascript) or 020 7440 4253
Click here for Library Catalogue on Soane.org.uk
Drawings
An outline list of all the architectural and topographical drawings in Soane’s collection, with the exception of the drawings by Robert and James Adam, is available online as the ‘Concise catalogue of drawings.
Click here for the Concise Catalogue of Drawings
Detailed and fully illustrated online catalogues of sections of the drawings collection are also in preparation. Currently available are a catalogue of the Wren Office drawings for Greenwich Hospital by Dr Gordon Higgott and the first volume of a catalogue of the Grand Tour drawings of Robert and James Adam by Professor Alan Tait.
Click here for Drawings Catalogue on Soane.org.uk
The following catalogues are also available in print:
Walter L. Spiers Catalogue of the Drawings and Designs of Robert and James Adam in Sir John Soane’s Museum, Chadwyck-Healey, 1979
Dr Lynda Fairbairn Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2 vols, Azimuth Editions 1998
Jill Lever Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Azimuth Editions, 2003
Microfilms of the Adam Collection of the Soane Drawings were produced by Chadwyck-Healey in 1976 and 1987 and these are available at the Museum and in a number of institutions in the UK and elsewhere. Contact ProQuest Information and Learning (this email requires javascript) for further details.
For queries about the Drawings Collection please contact the Curator of Drawings, Stephen Astley (this email requires javascript) or 020 7440 4252
Archives
For queries about Soane’s professional and personal papers and about records of the management of the Museum since 1837 please contact the Archivist, Susan Palmer (this email requires javascript) or 020 7440 4245
Works of Art
The manuscript inventory of all the objects and paintings on display in the Museum is available on request for consultation by visitors to the Research Library. A fully illustrated online catalogue of the Classical Antiquities is expected to published in 2009.
Full Bibilography of Publications on the Museum is available under Bibliography
