Variant designs for a four-columned portico between single columns each set at an angle to the main face, 18 and 19 September 1804 (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
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Reference number

SM (22) 1/6/5 (23) 1/6/8

Purpose

Variant designs for a four-columned portico between single columns each set at an angle to the main face, 18 and 19 September 1804 (2)

Aspect

22 Front elevation and ground floor plan 23 Front elevation and ground floor plan; (rough) half-elevation and part plan of attic; (rough) part-elevation of the attic

Scale

(22-23) to a scale

Inscribed

22 The Bank of England, Design for the North West Corner 23 The Bank of England, Sketch of a Design for the North West Corner, (Soane) this side, A omit this / break, lettered A (twice), (capitals) The Bank of England and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(22) At Margate / Tuesday Sep: 18: 1804 (23) Sep. 19. 1804

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

(22) J Whatman 1801

Notes

Drawings 22 and 23 show designs derived from Soane's rough elevations from Margate (drawing 21), when he changed from a triumphal arch to a portico theme. The drawings were made shortly after returning from Margate on the 18th of September. Paired columns in antis are behind the four-columned portico.

In drawing 23, the plan includes a second column added at an angle to the main face. Soane's alterations to the elevation include a frieze of ox-heads and garlands, a unique feature of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli (M. Richardson, 'John Soane and the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli', Architectural History, vol. 46, 2003, p.131). A pediment crowns the attic and an alternative attic pedestal is shown in feint pencil. Feint erased pencil lines on drawing 22 show a similar domed cap.

At 7'10½", the intercolumniation is 1½" narrower than Soane's preliminary design (drawing 21). The bottom of the architrave is approximately 29'4" from ground level, slightly shorter than subsequent drawings.

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Drawing

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