Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Alternative design for an expanded clerestory, 22 November 1803
  • image SM (48) volume 72/12

Reference number

SM (48) volume 72/12

Purpose

Alternative design for an expanded clerestory, 22 November 1803

Aspect

48 Section looking east, showing the recesses reduced and the central hall expanded in the clerestory on the north and south sides; (verso) rough pencil elevation of an arcade beside a pedimented façade

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

The Bank, Vestibule,

Signed and dated

  • Lincolns Inn Fields / Novr 22nd 1803

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

J Whatman 1801

Notes

Drawing 48 is a record drawing which has been significantly altered. Erasure marks indicate that the drawing originally showed recesses as in, for example, drawing 49.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).