[10] Site record 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)
    - 1814-1816 Rebuilding of existing offices and proposals for rebuilding street fronts (118)
      - Office over the Reduced Annuity Office, 1816 (34)

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Reference number

SM volume 45/27

Purpose

[10] Site record drawing

Aspect

Plan showing the Corner stones, looking into the Garden Court, Plan showing One of the piers and a perspective shewing stones looking into Prince Street, New Office Over Cheque Office

Inscribed

as above, Bank of England and some dimensions given

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the same perspective as that on the left of SM 2/3b/2 with wooden planks inserted into spaces (presumably to stabilise the masonry until floor beams could be added). The dimensions of the bricks are individually marked, suggesting the drawing was made when the material was in place, as a survey of what had been carried out by the builders.

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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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