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Model for the Bank of England, London: an ornament for the Pay Hall, designed by Sir John Soane
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Model for the Bank of England, London: an ornament for the Pay Hall, designed by Sir John Soane
Plaster
Museum number: M1182
On display: Museum South Passage
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Full scale. Plaster. No drawing for this feature occurs among Soane’s decorative designs or in the folder of drawings (10/5) concerning the various alterations made by him to Sampson’s original Pay Hall between 1801 and 1831.
The model remains in the position it occupied in 1837, at the time of Soane's death, hanging under the shelf supporting Flaxman's figure of Sir Joshua Reynolds, appearing as if it is a decorative bracket
The model remains in the position it occupied in 1837, at the time of Soane's death, hanging under the shelf supporting Flaxman's figure of Sir Joshua Reynolds, appearing as if it is a decorative bracket
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