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Reference number

SM (35) volume 75/47 (36) volume 73/99 (37) volume 72/30

Purpose

Variant designs for the loggia and Princes Street Vestibule, May to July 1803 (3)

Aspect

35 Section looking north through the Vestibule from Princes Street and the Colonnade / designed on the North side of the Waiting Room Court; and pencil details 36 Section looking north from Princes Street through the Passage to the Cashiers Office &c &c 37 Section looking north from Princes Street through the Passage to the Cashiers Office &c &c

Scale

(35-37) bar scale

Inscribed

35 as above, Section on the Line A. B., The Bank of England, and some dimensions given 36 as above, Plinth flush / with screen, stone, plinth, Qy ped (pediment, twice), dimensions given and (pencil) stone 37 as above, The Bank, plinth flush / with stucco, plinth, stucco, flush / plinth

Signed and dated

  • (35) May 5th 1803 (36) datable to between May and July 1803 (37) (Copy) / Lincolns Inn Fields July 20th 1803

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Notes

Drawing 37 is a copy of drawing 36, with the addition of ornamentation to the Doric Vestibule. Drawing 35 shows an earlier version of the design, with smaller windows in the loggia and a different treatment to the walls in the loggia. Drawing 35 does not show the parapet and pitched roof facing Princes Street.

Level

Drawing

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