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  • image SM volume 47/16

Reference number

SM volume 47/16

Purpose

[41] Site progress drawing for the later south or south-east Transfer Office, 25 April 1818

Aspect

Perspective showing the temporary roof

Signed and dated

  • (pencil) april 25th 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM volume 47/18, SM volume 71/27, SM volume 47/20, SM volume 71/28, SM volume 71/29 and SM volume 71/30 probably show the construction process of the later south-east Transfer Office, given the dates of three of the drawings (as later progress drawings show the south Transfer Office mid-demolition in 1821).

Literature

C. Woodward, Buildings in progress: Soane's views of construction, an exhibition catalogue for the Soane Gallery, 1995, p.13

Level

Drawing

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