[80] Pitt Cenotaph: further alternative design

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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 48/1/11

Purpose

[80] Pitt Cenotaph: further alternative design

Aspect

Section through the National Debt Redemption Office with design for the Cenotaph

Scale

to a scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen, burnt umber, raw umber, raw sienna, green, blue and Indian red washes, shaded, partly pricked for transfer with single ruled and black wash border on wove paper (460 x 587)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The drawing is a section (from the front to the back of the building) through three storeys and a lantern, showing the Cenotaph sited in a courtyard. The courtyard setting would have helped to achieve good natural lighting as well as allowing some separation from the everyday bustle of finance and commerce. A first floor plan (SM 48/1/29, q.v.) shows a courtyard with the Cenotaph circular (at this floor level) and with three rectangular apses.

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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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