[67] Design - floor plan

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100)

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Reference number

SM 48/1/29

Purpose

[67] Design - floor plan

Aspect

Plan of the ground floor

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(pencil) A if floor / 4 / B the door, over window, Iron Door, brick / up and dimensions given

Signed and dated

not dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and blue-grey washes on wove paper with one recent repair

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Notes

This drawing is close to SM 48/2/34 in some essentials though, for example, the plan of the wall facing Meeting House Court has four equal sized windows on SM 48/2/34 but five windows on this drawing and SM 48/1/29.

Soane's published ground floor plan (plate XLVIII****, Designs for Public and Private Buildings, 1832) is very small but mostly corresponds with this drawing 67, which is not dated but its shabby condition suggests that it was a working drawing used on site and is probably the best evidence we have of the final design for the ground floor of the National Debt Redemption Office.

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Drawing

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