A Newly Discovered Volume from the Office of Sir John Soane

• Autores: Bianca De Divitiis
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 145, Nº 1200, 2003, págs. 180-198
• Idioma: inglés
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  • With an Act of Parliament in 1833, Sir John Soane ensured that his house and all its contents would be maintained in the state in which they would be left when he died: it is this which has given rise to the belief that all Soane's possessions are still housed there, even though Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey has shown this on several occasions not to be the case.' The existence of a considerable collection of nearly five hundred drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum has long been known,a and the Montreal version of the recent exhibition on Soane has brought the collection of his works held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture to wider attention. In both cases the reasons why this material exists outside Soane's original collection can be traced back to one man: Charles James Richardson, Soane's last pupil, who subsequently became his assistant.