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Thrope, John
architect.
The author of an architectural sketch book preserved in the museum founded by Sir John Soane. It is a folio volume of 282 pages, containing drawings of about 140 different buildings of the early sixteenth century in England. Many of these represent buildings in course of construction, others are sketches of existing buildings, others are copied from French works on architecture, especially those of Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau. There is also a record of a payment made to him in the issues of the Exchequer.
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