British Architectural Library: R.I.B.A. – The Drawings Collection

Part 1: Specialist Catalogues

Complete Collection Phases A – D, L

97 reels (24 colour) with printed guide

Individual Phases:

Phase A

Colen Campbell, Jacques Gentilhtre, Inigo Jones and John Webb, Alfred Stevens, Antonio Visentini, C.F.A. Voysey.

14 reels (5 colour) with printed guide
Reference: RIA

Phase B

The Pugin Family, the Wyatt Family and J.B. Papworth.

16 reels (2 colour) with printed guide
Reference: RIB

Phase C

The Drawings of Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Scott Family Drawings.

50 reels with printed guide
Reference: RIC

Available separately:

Lutyens Drawings
12 reels

Scott Drawings
38 reels

Phase D

The Palladio Drawings, The Adam Drawings and the Smythson Collection.

4 colour reels with illustrated printed guide
Reference: RID

Phase L

The Charles Holden Collection.

13 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIL

Part 2: General Catalogues

Complete Collection Phases E – K, M – V

Individual Phases

Phase E

1590 – 1780 A – Z complete.

12 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIE

Phase F

1780 – 1840 A – D.

21 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIF

Phase G

1780 – 1840 D – P.

11 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIG

Phase H

1780 – 1840 R – Z.

6 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIH

Phase I

1840 – 1914 A – B.

5 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RII

Phase J

1840 – 1914 Bentley – Burges.

13 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIJ

Phase K

1840 – 1914 B – F.

14 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIK

Phase M

1840 – 1914 O – L.

21 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIM

Phase N

1840 – 1914 L – M.

12 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIN

Phase O

1840 – 1914 M – R.

6 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIO

Phase P

1840 – 1914 P – S.

11 colour reels with printed guide
Reference: RIP

Phase Q

1840 – 1914 Salvin – Simpson.

Salvin, Anthony (1799 – 1881)
Sedding, Edwin Harold (c. 1855 – 1921)
Seddon, John Pollard (1827 – 1906)
Sharpe, Edmund (1809 – 1877)
Shaw, Richard Norman (1831 – 1912)
Simpson, William (1823 – 1899)

8 reels with printed guide
Reference: RIQ

Phase R

1840 – 1914 S – W.

Sidney Smirke Snr. (1799 – 1877)
Richard Phene Spiers (1837 – 1916)
Charles Sydney Spooner (1862 – 1938)
George Edmund Street (1824 – 1881)
Edward John Tarver (1841 – 1891)
Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812 – 1873)
John Thomas (1813 – 1862)
Lewis Vuilliamy (1791 – 1871)
Sir Aston Webb (1849 – 1930)
Philip Speakman Webb (1831 – 1915)

15 colour reels
Reference: RIR

Phase S

1840 – 1914 W – Y.

William Westmacott (1808 – 1873)
James Mitchell Whitelaw (1886 – 1913)
George Whitewick (1802 – 1872)
Charles Canning Winmill (1865 – 1945)
John Drayton Wyatt (1820 – 1891)
William Young (1843 – 1900)

7 colour reels
Reference: RIS

Phase T

1840-1914: supplement – drawings not available at time of original filming.

Charles Aidridge & Charles Ernest Deacon (1876 – 1891)
Anthony R Barker (1909 – 1914)
James Kellaway Colling (1816 – 1905)
Thomas Fulljames (1810 – 1874)
Settimio Giamietri (1842 – post 1915)
Arthur Beresford Pite (1861 – 1934)

4 colour reels
Reference: RIT

Phase U

1914 – 1940 Allen-Bilson.

Henry Lenox Anderson (1911 – 1949)
William Henry Ansell (1872 – 1959)
Peter George Beresford (1928 – )
John Bilson (1856 – 1943)

8 colour reels
Reference: RIU

Phase V

1914 – 1940 Bilson-Eden.

John Bilson (1856 – 1943)
William H Blacking (1889 – 1958)
Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856 – 1943)
Henry Cart De Lafontaine (1884 – 1963)
Ethel Mary Charles (1871 – 1962)
Serge Chermayeff (1900 – 1998)
William H Cowlishaw (1869 – 1957)
John H Currey (1859 – 1941)

19 colour reels
Reference: RIV

Also included In This Phase

One reel of drawings from the period 1840 – 1914, which was not available at the time that section was filmed. It contains work of Arthur Beresford Pite (1861 – 1934) and George Walton (1867 – 1933).