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Reference number
SM 40/4/19
Purpose
[5] Design for the new building
Aspect
Ground floor plan
Scale
bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Messrs Peters & Co, Design for the New Buildings in Fountain Court, labelled: Strong / Closet, Door, Counting House, Warehouse (4 times), (pencil) Irish / Co[unting] Ho[use], (pencil) Shippg / Co[unting] Ho[use], (pencil) Entce, Porters Room, Court (3 times), 2nd Office, 1st Office and (pencil) some illegible inscriptions
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, sepia, light red and blue washes, pricked for transfer with triple ruled sepia and black wash border on wove paper with two fold marks (508 x 693)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
1794 / J Whatman
Notes
This drawing shows a development of the previous design [4] which retains the curved facade (although it is here reduced to nine bays) but substantially alters the internal arrangement. The area given to the '1st' and '2nd' offices is greater than in the previous design. The most striking alteration, however, is the arrangement of the warehouses in a horseshoe-shaped plan which is an attempt to make full use of the irregular site while creating an element of regularity. Although this design has the appearance of a drawing that has been made for presentation to the client, Soane was clearly unsatisfied with the plan, making several alterations in pencil, mainly to the entrance hall, the staircase and the rooms either side of the main entrance.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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