Record drawings showing early designs for the Vestibule, one dated April 1803 (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)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - Doric Vestibule, 1803-1805 (70)

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Reference number

SM (18) volume 60/4 (19) volume 60/163

Purpose

Record drawings showing early designs for the Vestibule, one dated April 1803 (2)

Aspect

18 Interior perspective looking east 19 Interior perspective looking south

Inscribed

18 View of the Entrance to the Bank from Princes Street as originally designed

Signed and dated

(18) (pencil) April 6 / (pen) 1803

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawings 18 and 19 almost corresponds with drawings 10 to 13, having only one set of paired columns in each recess and no columns in the east end. Unlike drawings 10 to 13, these views omit a door into the loggia. In drawing 19, the stairs to the loggia are within a small arched door, unlike any of the other designs.

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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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