Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincolns-Inn-Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane ... With graphic illustrations and incidental details / [Anon].

  • Sir John Soane's Museum.
Date:
[1835]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincolns-Inn-Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane ... With graphic illustrations and incidental details / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    202/212 (page 104)
    and to collect the rents of the house. Curator, upon entering into office, to give bond, with two sureties, in 1,000/., that no part of the said Museum, &c. shall be taken away, lost, or em¬ bezzled. As to removal of Curator. Duties of the Inspectress. Inspectress to be removable. Sir J. Soane, by Will, to ap¬ point the first Curator and first Inspec¬ tress. i Museum shall be open for public inspection, or persons shall be admitted thereto by the said Trustees, and at all other times necessary for the due preservation of the said house, offices, and Museum; and the said Curator shall take care that the house, offices, Museum, and premises, be kept properly cleaned, warmed, ventilated, and in thorough repair; and in order thereto shall report to the said Trustees yearly, or oftener if requisite or expedient, what is necessary to he done for the due keeping up and pre¬ serving the said house, offices. Museum, and premises, together with the estimated expense thereof, to the end that the said Trustees may direct whatever repairs they may, in consequence of such report or otherwise, consider necessary and expedient to he done; and the said Curator shall collect the rents of the said house, being No. 12 in Lincoln’s Inn Fields aforesaid, and shall, twice at least in every year, pay the amount so received by him into the hands of the said Trustees, or to the account to he kept at the Bank of England in their names as Trustees of the said fund. IV. And be it enacted, that every person who shall be appointed the Curator of the said Museum shall, within one month from his nomination and appointment thereto, and before he shall enter upon the said office of Curator, give satisfactory security to the said Trustees, by a joint and several bond from himself and two sufficient sureties, in the sum of One Thousand Pounds, that no part of the said Museum, or any of the Books, Manuscripts, Paintings, Drawings, Pictures, Models, Works of Art, or effects in the said Museum or offices, shall be taken away from the said Museum, or lost or embezzled, and shall, upon being admitted into the said office of Curator, make out and subscribe with his own name a full and complete catalogue or schedule of all such Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Drawings, Pictures, Models, and various Works of Art, and other things, as shall be placed under his charge as such Curator as aforesaid, and shall deliver the same to the said Trustees, or one of them, and shall keep one other copy thereof, likewise subscribed by him, in the principal room of the said Museum for general reference. V. And he it further enacted, that every such Curator shall be removable from his office of Curator by the said Trustees at pleasure, except the person who shall be appointed Curator by the said Sir John Soane as hereinafter mentioned, who shall be removable by the said Trustees with the consent of the President of the Royal Academy. VI. And he it enacted, that the Inspectress of the said house and Museum for the time being (who is not to reside in the said house) shall have the entire arrangement of the domestic concerns of the house and offices appropriated to the said Museum, and shall from time to time provide all such things as shall be necessary and proper for the same, and which shall be paid for by the said Trustees as inci¬ dental expenses ; and the said Inspectress shall have the sole power and duty of hiring and discharging one man-servant and two female servants, who shall be constantly kept and employed as domestic servants, on hoard wages, in and about the said Museum and offices, one of which said female servants may act as the domestic servant of the Curator for the time being, so far as he shall require her services. VII. And be it further enacted, that every Inspectress shall be removable from her office by the said Trustees at pleasure. VIII. And he it enacted, that the first Curator of the said Museum, and the first Inspectress of the said Museum, house, and offices, shall be such persons respectively as the said Sir John Soane, by his last Will and Testament in waiting, or by any Codicil to his last Will and Testament in writing, may have nominated or appointed, or shall nominate and appoint respectively, as such Curator and Inspectres^