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  • image SM (52) volume 60/44

Reference number

SM (52) volume 60/44

Purpose

Composite drawing of views showing the street fronts before rebuilding, 1827

Aspect

52 View of the South West Corner; View in Threadneedle Street; View of Part of the old front next Threadneedle Street built by Robert Taylor

Inscribed

as above, The Bank of England

Signed and dated

  • 1827

Watermark

Cansell 1824

Notes

The view at the bottom of the sheet, showing the poor state of the pre-existing screen wall (built by Robert Taylor in 1765) and with the railing included in the drawing, is a rough copy of SM 11/7/9, a drawing for Soane's Lecture XII at the Royal Academy (Watkin). The smaller drawing at the bottom-left of the sheet is a copy of drawing 44, made on site by a pupil in October 1824. The bottom-left of the sheet has a copy of drawing 42, also made by a pupil in October 1824.

Literature

D. Watkin, Sir John Soane: englightenment thought and the Royal Academy lectures, 1996, p. 654.

Level

Drawing

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