Site record drawing and two progress drawings, 13 September 1816 (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
    - 1814-1816 Rebuilding of existing offices and proposals for rebuilding street fronts (118)
      - Office over the Reduced Annuity Office, 1816 (34)

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Reference number

SM (29) volume 47/7 (30) volume 47/6 (31) volume 47/8

Purpose

Site record drawing and two progress drawings, 13 September 1816 (2)

Aspect

29 Plan of the timber roof structure 30 Perspective showing the timber roof structure, mid way through construction 31 View of the / Cheque Office showing the roof mid-way through construction

Inscribed

29 some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(29) (pencil) Sep^r. 13 (30) (pencil) Sept^r 13^th 1816 (31) (pencil) September 13^th. 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawing 29 shows a rough unfinished plan of the roof outline and the ends of the main beams, with some of the smaller trusses filled in (which would have supported the covering leads). Drawing 30 shows this combination in perspective. The queen post structure is shown (a further one beyond).

Drawing 31 shows the construction process, with possition of the flat lateral beams that are shown in drawing 29.

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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