Working drawing, 24 July 1797

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Reference number

SM (7) 81/2/34

Purpose

Working drawing, 24 July 1797

Aspect

7 Elevation of Recess & Chimney in the 4 p^r Cent Office, details including Section thro' the Cap[ital] and (verso) small plan of an unidentified staircase

Scale

bar scale and ½ the full size (twice)

Inscribed

N^o 3. Portland Chimnies for the 4 p^rC^t. Office, Old Wall (twice), Line of Wall, Stone Plinth, some dimensions given and stamped S.O.

Signed and dated

S.O. Bank July 24^th 1797

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawing 7 is for a chimney-piece design intended for the Four Per Cent Office (directly to the north of the Rotunda).

The chimney-piece elevations shows a triple-incised frame, surmounted by Greek key pattern frieze. The half full size sectional detail shows the incised frieze, marking the depth of the incision-recess back to the wall and (further up) indicating the position of the incised parts for the Greek-key pattern and surround.

As a prelude to copying, the drawing has been pricked for transfer - an indication of the rational re-use of existing designs that characterised Soane's office practice.

Level

Drawing

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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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