[8] Presentation drawing of alternative design for the Printing Office Court and directors' parlours

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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)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - Second phase of the north-west extension: Printing Offices and offices south of the Waiting Room Court, 1803-1810 (21)

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SM 9/2/14

Purpose

[8] Presentation drawing of alternative design for the Printing Office Court and directors' parlours

Aspect

Ground floor plan of the existing Bank and proposed offices, showing semicircular-ended rooms and an arcade

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

plan of preliminary design labelled (Soane, red pen): Ad[ditiona]l Office (twice), officers, Bed, Secr[etary], Arcade, Barracks and plan of built works labelled: Princes Street (twice), The three per cent / Reduced, Armory, Cheque Office, Pay Office, Garden, Officers / Room, Bed / Room, Servants Room, Court, Passage, Clerk of / Commitee, Doorkeepers / Lobby, Waiting Room (three times), Strong / Room, Passage, Vestibule to Court and / Committee Room, Committee Room, Court Room, Lobby, Coffee / Room, Drawing Office, Discount Office, Court, Court, Passage from Princes Street to the / Different Offices, Vestibule, Passage, Chief Clerk, Inspectors Office, Accountants Office (twice), Deputy / Accountants / Room, Deputy / Accountants / Parlor, Deputy / Accountants Eating / Room, Accountants / Parlor, The Accountants / Eating Room, Accountants Court, Chief Cashiers / Room, Land Tax / Reduced / Office, Cashiers Office, Secretaries Office, Passage (twice), Lothbury Court, Porters / Lodge, Vestibule, Library, Court, The Three Per Cent Consols / Transfer Office, Interior Office, Bullion Court, Bullion Office, The three per cent Consols / Dividend Office, Bank Stock Office, Rotunda, Vestibule (twice), Strong Room, Court, Pay Hall, Passage (twice), Threadneedle Street, Bartholomew's Lane, Lothbury, The Bank of England / General Plan

Hand

Soane office and Soane

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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