Welcome to the Online Catalogue of Soane's drawings. 

The online catalogue of drawings by Sir John Soane begins with the theoretical designs as well as the measured drawings he made as a student at the Royal Academy and on his Italian tour.  It also includes his earliest sketch/notebooks (see online Sketchbook Catalogue).  Digital images accompany most of these catalogue entries.

Also added (at present without digital images) is volume 42 which was Soane's personal 'scrap book' with 195 drawings.  Of these, half are by Soane, 33 by George Dance, 15 from Henry Holland or his office with others by, for example, William Chambers and Robert Adam or his office and by masons, furniture makers and engineers.  The drawings range in date from 1757 to 1818.  

This catalogue of Soane's drawings continues with his first commissions from 1777 onwards.  Further drawings will become available online as they are catalogued.

Some of the entries in the current online catalogue still lack cross references (shown in red and blue) to other drawings. These will be inserted in due course.

These early Soane drawings are being researched and written by Jill Lever, former Curator of the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection, and author of Catalogue of the drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768): from the collections of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions, London, 2003.

Jill Lever's work has been funded by a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.