Record drawing of a design for the Accountants Office

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Reference number

SM (47) volume 60/41

Purpose

Record drawing of a design for the Accountants Office

Aspect

47 Interior perspective looking west

Inscribed

(Bailey) Bank, A Design for the Accountants Office for £5 notes

Signed and dated

datable to between September 1803 and August 1804 (see Notes below)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawings for the Accountants Office show two alternative designs for an arched ceiling. The segmental arch design, initially shown in early drawings from 30 September 1803, was reverted to after experimentation with a coved ceiling of quarter-circular curved corners (as in drawings 28 to 31). Drawing 47, therefore, could have been executed between September 1803 and August 1804.

Level

Drawing

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