Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Design for a four-columned portico in antis between paired columns projecting at an oblique angle to the main face, 12 and 19 October 1804 (3)
  • image Image 1 for SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14
  • image Image 2 for SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14
  • image Image 3 for SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14
  • image Image 1 for SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14
  • image Image 2 for SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14
  • image Image 3 for SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14

Reference number

SM (33) 1/6/10 (34) 1/6/21 (35) 1/6/14

Purpose

Design for a four-columned portico in antis between paired columns projecting at an oblique angle to the main face, 12 and 19 October 1804 (3)

Aspect

33 Front elevation; (pencil) elevation of a door on the side of the podium 34 Ground floor plan 35 Perspective looking north

Scale

(33) bar scale (34) to a scale

Inscribed

33 The Bank of England, Sketch of a Design for the North West Corner and (red pen and pencil, Soane) some dimensions given 34 The Bank of England, Design for the North West Corner 35 The Bank of England, Sketch of a Design for the North West Corner

Signed and dated

  • (33) L.I.F. Octr: 12: 1804 (34) Octr 19th 1804 (35) October 1804

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

(33, 35) J Whatman 1801

Notes

The four-columned portico is in antis, not projecting as in previous designs (drawings 29 to 31). All eight columns share a continuous podium and entablature, forming a portico on a splayed plan. Another pair of columns in antis are aligned behind the middle two columns, framing a recess and a door. To either side of the door a short passage leads to a room set behind the columns.

The distance between the column centres is narrower than that shown in earlier designs, measuring 7'4 3/8", the same dimension as George Dance's measurements for the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli.

Literature

M. Richardson, 'John Soane and the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli', Architectural History, vol. 46, 2003, p. 130.

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).