Working drawings for doors, November 1832 (3)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: New State Paper Office, Duke Street, Westminster, 1829-34 (207)

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Reference number

SM (149) 82/2/52 (150) 82/2/53 (151) 82/2/54

Purpose

Working drawings for doors, November 1832 (3)

Aspect

149 Details of doors for the Basement and Ground and One Pair Floors; (verso) details of balustrades in the galleries 150 Detail of a door 151 Details of two doors

Scale

(149) to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot; (verso) bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot (151) bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

149 as above, labelled: 7.0, 3.4, 7.6, 3.6½ 150 labelled: New State Paper Office, (pencil) 3 / 60 / 20 / 6 151 labelled: New State Paper Office

Signed and dated

November 1832
(150) Nov^r 1832 (151) 9 Nov^r 1832 and 10 or 11 Nov^r 32

Medium and dimensions

(149) Pen and yellow wash (verso: pen, blue, grey and yellow washes), pricked for transfer on wove paper (374 x 532) (150) pen and grey wash, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (327 x 302) (151) pen, grey and yellow ochre washes on wove paper (328 x 537)

Hand

(149-151) unattributed

Notes

The difference in status between the doors for the basement and the doors for the ground and first floors is expressed by the number of rolls around the panels - the basement door panels have one roll whereas the ground floor door panels have three. The door in drawing 150 is studded, suggesting that it is reinforced. On drawing 33 the library has two iron doors but, as Susan Palmer points out, there is no evidence that these were ever made (S. Palmer, 'Sir John Soane and the design of the new State Paper Office', Archivaria, 2005, p. 57). The location of the doors in drawing 151 is also unknown. The details show the mouldings and joints between the panels and the stiles of the doors.

The balustrades on the library galleries (drawing 149 verso) are approximately 3½ feet tall and are decorated with diamond patterns and rosettes, a typical feature of Soane's balustrades as found at, for example, 12-14 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

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