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East India House, Leadenhall Street, City of London, c.1796
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Henry Holland, London, Leadenhall Street, East India House. SM 13/6/3. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama
Reference number
SM 13/6/3
Purpose
East India House, Leadenhall Street, City of London, c.1796
Aspect
[3] Elevation of principal front, almost as executed
Scale
1/6 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
some dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Front of the India House Leaden Hall Street
Signed and dated
- c.1796
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, pink, green earth and black washes, shaded, within double ruled border on wove paper (520 x 985)
Hand
office of Henry Holland
Notes
Though the design was previously catalogued as a 'Soane office copy of a Henry Holland drawing' this is unlikely, given the style of draughtsmanship and Dance's inscription, if it is understood to mean that it was in his collection.
The elevation shows a 15-bay, two-storey building with a tripartite composition. In the centre is a six-column giant Ionic portico with an anthemion frieze, sculpted tympanum and three acroterion figures. There are round-arched openings on the horizontally rusticated ground floor, square-headed windows on the first floor with cornices and shouldered architraves, and a balustraded parapet.
A watercolour of East India House by T. H. Shepherd made in 1817 in the Museum of London (reproduced in C. Fox (ed), London - world city 1800-1840, 1992, p.29), showing the executed design carried out under Richard Jupp, scarcely differs from Holland's elevation. Two details were embellished: the columns of the portico were fluted in execution and the plain keystones to the ground floor windows became scrolled. The two-storey addition that Holland made to the west soon after he became Surveyor to the East India Company in 1799 is not shown on [SM 13/6/3] and it seems likely that Holland's elevation was made before that date.
REPRODUCED. D. Stroud, Henry Holland, 1966, fig.118.
The elevation shows a 15-bay, two-storey building with a tripartite composition. In the centre is a six-column giant Ionic portico with an anthemion frieze, sculpted tympanum and three acroterion figures. There are round-arched openings on the horizontally rusticated ground floor, square-headed windows on the first floor with cornices and shouldered architraves, and a balustraded parapet.
A watercolour of East India House by T. H. Shepherd made in 1817 in the Museum of London (reproduced in C. Fox (ed), London - world city 1800-1840, 1992, p.29), showing the executed design carried out under Richard Jupp, scarcely differs from Holland's elevation. Two details were embellished: the columns of the portico were fluted in execution and the plain keystones to the ground floor windows became scrolled. The two-storey addition that Holland made to the west soon after he became Surveyor to the East India Company in 1799 is not shown on [SM 13/6/3] and it seems likely that Holland's elevation was made before that date.
REPRODUCED. D. Stroud, Henry Holland, 1966, fig.118.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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