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Reference number

SM 11/4/8

Purpose

[23] Record drawing of alternative design for the Accountants Office

Aspect

Interior perspective looking west, showing tall semicircular-headed windows on both the north and south elevations and a flat ceiling with a patera in the centre

Inscribed

The Bank of England, View of a design for the Accountants Office for 1 & 2 £ Notes. 1803.

Signed and dated

  • datable to after August 1803

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM 11/4/7 and SM volume 60/164 show the Accountants Office with a flat ceiling. The fenestration is shown as executed. The west and east ends of the room each show a portico-like composition of paired pilasters framing a semicircular-headed door; at the east end is a pedimented door set within a blind arch. Ox heads and festoons decorate the entablatures on all walls.

Level

Drawing

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