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Model for the Bank of England, London, (designed by John Soane) for an entablature after that of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli.
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Model for the Bank of England, London, (designed by John Soane) for an entablature after that of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli.
Stone
Museum number: M194
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
This is a model for Soane's Bank of England and is for an entablature of Soane's own design combining the garlands and bukrania of the entablature of the Roman Temple of Vesta at Tivoli with a greek key pattern.
John Wilton Ely has identified it as part of the entablature of the executed design for the North-East 'Tivoli' corner of the Bank of England.
It was described in the earliest Museum inventories (1837) as a Model of a piece of Entablature designed after that of the Temple of Tivoli and in the Bank of England – stone.
This is a model for a corner block with the ornament returning around the proper right end only. The other end is unornamented.
John Wilton Ely has identified it as part of the entablature of the executed design for the North-East 'Tivoli' corner of the Bank of England.
It was described in the earliest Museum inventories (1837) as a Model of a piece of Entablature designed after that of the Temple of Tivoli and in the Bank of England – stone.
This is a model for a corner block with the ornament returning around the proper right end only. The other end is unornamented.
Literature
John Wilton-Ely, 'Catalogue of the architectural models at Sir John Soane's Museum', Architectural History 1969, cat. no. 28.
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