[63] Site progress drawing

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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)
      - Consols Transfer Office, 1797-1799 (75)

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Reference number

SM volume 69/13

Purpose

[63] Site progress drawing

Aspect

Interior perspective of Trunk arch of central dome under construction, from a north-east angle

Signed and dated

Bank Oct^r 1798

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Soane sent his pupils out in pairs to make drawings of his buildings under construction at different stages. He believed the principles and practices of construction were invaluable to an architect and the knowledge could only be gained by experience and observation of the progress of construction.

This drawing was actually later copied as a lecture drawing for the Royal Academy lecture in 1815 (SM 11/6/5). It can specifically be dated to after 1811 due to the watermark of the paper. There is another lecture drawing (SM 11/6/4), which was drawn for the purpose. It is a longitudinal section looking south showing the construction of the Consols Transfer Office. It reveals the use of incombustible materials and also the iron strap along the diagonal ridge of the groin-vaulted end-bays (as seen in the plan of SM volume 74/62).

Literature

C. Woodward, Buildings in progress: Soane's views of construction, an exhibition catalogue for the Soane Gallery, 1995, p. 10

Level

Drawing

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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 in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early 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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