Working drawing and record drawing of the wall on Lothbury Street, 1796 (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)
    - 1791-1801 Rebuilding of offices in the east wing and north-east extension (430)
      - Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane screen walls, 1794-1797 (66)

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Reference number

SM (19) 10/1/36 (20) volume 60/198

Purpose

Working drawing and record drawing of the wall on Lothbury Street, 1796 (2)

Aspect

19 North elevation and wall plan of a wall (showing variants in rustication) having a pedimented semicircular arched entrance between two raised blind Corinthian porticos in antis; above, four figurative statues on plinths to either side of pedestals framed by fluted pilasters 20 North west perspective of the wall showing a design similar to drawing 19, with scrolled segmental pediments above the attic pedestals and, spanning the roofline, a variant of Venetian crenellation in which the usual large balls are replaced by antefixes

Scale

(19) bar scale

Inscribed

19 elevation labelled CD (twice), EF, Recedes (four times) and dimensions given (Bailey) The Bank of England, Design for part of the North Front

Signed and dated

(19) 1796

Hand

Soane office

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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