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- (16) as above, January 1810 (17) May 24 1810
Drawing 17 shows the Pay Hall divided into several areas for public banking. Soane constantly had to make temporary office space for those displaced clerks whose offices were being repaired or rebuilt. Drawing 17 may show such a temporary arrangement (the Bank Stock Office roof was repaired in 1810), but it is more probably a permanent layout of the desks in the Pay Hall, serving several public banking functions.
The survey (drawing 18) shows a stove in the centre of the Pay Hall, as in drawing 17.
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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