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Reference number

SM (10) volume 73/106

Purpose

Design for a four-columned triumphal arch, introducing a shouldered attic plan and a panelled Vitruvian door, 7 and 9 February 1803

Aspect

10 Front elevation and ground floor plan; rough part-plan of the attic; elevation and plans of an antefix on a pedestal; rough (pencil) details of a Greek key frieze and a cornice; (verso) full size detail of the plinth and base of one of the attic pilasters

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

(Soane) Arch[ivolt] (four times), to br[ick] arch / over / at 12 feet high, arches (?) form / into brick / en plein centre, (capitals) Bank of England, See base full: other / side, Qy archi[trave], A and dimensions given; (verso) A and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • Feb: 7 1803 and Feb. 9. 1803

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

Hayes & Wise 1799

Notes

Raised Corinthian columns flank a semicircular-headed arch, and another set of single raised colummns are placed at an angle to the main face. The attic consists of a pedestal with a semicircular opening framing an acroterion enclosing a wreathed eagle and supporting a plinth surmounted by a domed cap (as in drawing 6). To either side of the attic pedestal are fluted pilasters capped by antefixes. Unlike drawings 6 and 8, the pilasters are on a 'shouldered' attic plan (that is, offset at the corner of the pedestal) rather than on a projecting plane (see sketch detail, top left-hand side of the drawing).

Additions to the drawing in pen show a blind panelled Vitruvian door included at the back of the recession. Overlaid on the elevation in red pen is a section of one of the coved recesses and a modification that enlarges the central arch.

Level

Drawing

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