Scale
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Inscribed
The Bank of England, (Soane) Each front including bases and Capitals / in one piece - / Architrave, Cornice & Blocking in one / piece, To be completed by the 20th of Decr next.; (verso) Novr 1789 / Elevations of Stoves at Bank (pencil) Bank Stock Office, Vestibule, top of Colonnade
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash, brown pen, on laid paper with three fold marks (650 x 576)
Hand
Soane and Soane office
Notes
This stove is not a characteristically Soanean design and it would have fitted well inside Robert Taylor's south-west wing of small parlours. The Bank bill books records an unusually high number of stoves ordered at the end of the year in 1790. Good heating was a reccuring concern for the directors, influencing many of Soane's designs throughout his surveyorship at the Bank. The stoves recorded for 1790 vary in design. The most expensive, for £13 13s Od is described as a Patent Register Stove / with black Japanned fronts / molding and button and bead / outside, knee'd plate and / button and bead inside steel / Check plates and pillars, measuring 3 feet 5½ inches wide and 2 feet 2 inches high. Another, costing £2 12s 6d was described as a high Metal forest stove / 20" coved Barr plain moulding / for fret 3'17"¾ for Exchequer Offic[e].
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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
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work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of
his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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