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Literature. W. Marston Acres, The Bank of England from within, Oxford, 1931; E. Schumann-Bacia, John Soane and the Bank of England, 1991; D. Abramson, Building the Bank of England, 2005
Madeleine Helmer, 2010
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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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of Porter's Lodge and Residence Court, 1796 - 1797 (40)
- Working drawings and a record drawing for the Porter's Lodge, February-June 1796 (6)
- Record drawings of the Porter's Lodge, 1796 (2)
- Variant designs for the south elevation of the Porter's Lodge, March and May 1796 (3)
- Designs for the south elevation of the Porter's Lodge, 1797 (2)
- Design for the basement and ground floors of the Residence Court, April 1797 (2)
- Working drawings for the north-east corner of the Residence Court, April 1797 (4)
- Working drawing for the foundations next to Princes Street, 19 April 1797
- Presentation drawings for the Porter's Lodge and the Residence Court, May 1797 (5)
- Working drawings for linking the residential buildings at the north-east with the existing Porter's Lodge, April, May and July 1797 (4)
- Working drawings for windows on the south elevation of the Residence Court, mid 1797
- Working drawing for the screen wall, one copied 2 August 1797
- Design for the Residence Court, next to the existing Porter's Lodge, 1797
- Record drawings of a design for re-facing the south elevation of the Porter's Lodge, 1797 (3)
- Record drawing of the south side of the Porter's Lodge
- Working drawing for the Deputy Accountant's Eating Room, 23 February 1798