Survey drawings the Bank buildings, 1802 (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
    - 1788-1793 Initial assessment of existing buildings and minor alterations (73)
      - Bank buildings by Sir Robert Taylor, 1766 and 1802 (10)

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Reference number

SM (8) 1/3/8 (9) 1/3/9

Purpose

Survey drawings the Bank buildings, 1802 (2)

Aspect

8 Ground plan showing separate holdings in the Bank buildings 9 A copy of drawing 8, with dimensions of streets and holdings

Scale

(8-9) bar scale

Inscribed

8-9 Royal Exchange, Bank Coffee House, Wills Coffee House, Mess^rs Sherwin and Williams, M^rBonnett, Sun Fire Office, Ladbroke & Co, Richardson Goodluck & Co, Mr Arnold 8 The Plan of the Bank Buildings, The Bank of England and dimensions given 9 Plan of Buildings opposite the Bank, Entrance Court / Bank, Threadneedle Street, Bank Street, Cornhill, Castle Alley, Bartholomew Lane and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(8) March 1802 (9) March 12 1802

Medium and dimensions

(8) Pencil, pen, grey, pink, and blue washes within double ruled border on laid paper (507 x 709) (9) pen, grey and pink washes on laid paper (522 x 672)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

(8) J Whatman 1794

Notes

Soane managed the Bank's speculative properties as well as the Bank itself. In Septemer 1799 the Bank received proposals for leases to its properties. The Building Committee minutes records that the Committee decided to take the Sun Fire Office's offer for a lease.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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