A vaulted room (6.2 x 6.3 m) on the ground floor was still intact in 1820, according to a contemporary drawing.
A new tender for it was constructed based on contemporary drawings.
Not that first-rate contemporary drawings aren't welcome in such a context; the problem is that these are hardly up to the challenge.
He first had the idea of creating a platform dedicated to contemporary drawing in Brooklyn in 2006.
A contemporary drawing of the manor house in the museum suggests that, at the time of Soane, this pond was much deeper.
Anyone with doubts about the health of contemporary drawing should take a look at this accomplished group show.
He saw a contemporary drawing that he liked and asked to meet the artist.
The theater had a chalk foundation, and though contemporary drawings made it appear round, it was in fact polygonal, with either 16 or 18 sides.
"I don't think a person has the obligation to study up on an artist," said Norman Dubrow, a collector of contemporary drawings.
Initially it was a forum for contemporary drawing, then it expanded into a wide range of artistic media.