[14] Preliminary longitudinal section with fan-light lunettes

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1356)
    - 1791-1801 Rebuilding of offices in the east wing and north-east extension (431)
      - Bank Stock Office, 1791-1793 (73)
        Preliminary and realised lantern dome designs (longitudinal and transverse sections), c. 1792 (7)

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Reference number

SM volume 74/24

Purpose

[14] Preliminary longitudinal section with fan-light lunettes

Aspect

Longitudinal section looking east and (verso, pencil) outlined transverse section for the hall

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

The Bank of England, Section of the Bank Stock Office and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

datable to March 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pale red ink, sepia and pale blue washes. partly pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (519 x 593)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the dimensions and structure of the hall as realised, as well as the idea of banded wall rustication and fluted pilasters. However, in the built version, the square wall panels were enlarged into rectangles, the fluting extended all the way down the pilasters, the pilaster caps reduced, the garlands in the lantern roof omitted, and the shape of the lunette and lantern lights modified, as was the shape of the lantern roof itself, as seen in SM volume 74/22.

Very lightly sketched in the spandrel of the side arches are serpentine motifs and in the central pendentives appear fluting (neither motif realised). However, on the verso, sketched lightly in pencil, is an outlined transverse section of the hall showing the general shape as executed and with roundels in the pendentives, similar to the lion's-mask and rosette paterae eventually realised. Along with the fan-light lunettes, these elements relate to SM volume 74/16 and SM volume 74/31 and thus probably date this drawing to c. March 1792.

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Drawing

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